Weathering and Durability in LandscapeArchitecture: Fundamentals, Practices, and CaseStudies
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Weatering and Durability in Landscape Architecture provides authoritative guidelines to weathering, durability, and physical changes in the designed landscape over time.
* Provides innovative weathering strategies illustrated with case studies.
* Includes information on completed landscapes with data and commentary on maintenance and durability.
* Provides the personal weathering and durability strategies of leading experts.
* Provides innovative weathering strategies illustrated with case studies.
* Includes information on completed landscapes with data and commentary on maintenance and durability.
* Provides the personal weathering and durability strategies of leading experts.
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NIALL KIRKWOOD, ASLA, is Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Design School.
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Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
PART ONE: Design for Weathering and Durability.
CHAPTER 1: TIME AND THE BUILT LANDSCAPE.
CHAPTER 2: ASPECTS OF PERMANENCE.
CHAPTER 3: DESIGN APPROACHES.
PART TWO: Landscape Architectural Design Case Studies.
CHAPTER 4: CASE STUDIES.
Case Study A: Expiration Date
Vintondale Colliery Park Reclamation, Vintondale, Pennsylvania (Julie Bargmann).
Case Study B Constructing Memory
A Memorial to Rosie the Riveter, Richmond, California (Cheryl Barton).
Case Study C: The Persistence of Spatial Structure
Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas (Edward L. Blake, Jr.).
Case Study D: The Readjusted Scales of Duration
A Private Summer Retreat, Western Maine (Michael Blier).
Case Study E: Working Materials
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana (Eric Fulford and Ann Reed).
Case Study F: Dimensions of Process and Change
Crissy Field: A Tidal Marsh Restoration, San Francisco, California (Mary Margaret Jones).
Case Study G: Aesthetics of Cultural Weathering
Moyland Elementary School Playground, Hartford, Connecticut;
Courtyard and Meditation Labyrinth, Chester, Connecticut (Mikyoung Kim).
Case Study H: Urban Legacies
Cook + Phillip Park, Sydney, Australia (Elizabeth Mossop).
Case Study I: Evolving Economies
Casa Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico (Margie Ruddick).
Case Study J: Maturing Practices
Advantica Plaza and Park, Spartanburg, South Carolina (Peter Lindsay Schaudt).
Case Study K: Perpetual Material
Aluminum Garden, New York, New York (Ken Smith).
Case Study L: Compressed
"Compressed": A Temporary Landscape Installation, Cazenovia, New York (H. Keith Wagner).
PART THREE: Afterword.
CHAPTER 5: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES.
Bibliography and Further Reading.
Index.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
PART ONE: Design for Weathering and Durability.
CHAPTER 1: TIME AND THE BUILT LANDSCAPE.
CHAPTER 2: ASPECTS OF PERMANENCE.
CHAPTER 3: DESIGN APPROACHES.
PART TWO: Landscape Architectural Design Case Studies.
CHAPTER 4: CASE STUDIES.
Case Study A: Expiration Date
Vintondale Colliery Park Reclamation, Vintondale, Pennsylvania (Julie Bargmann).
Case Study B Constructing Memory
A Memorial to Rosie the Riveter, Richmond, California (Cheryl Barton).
Case Study C: The Persistence of Spatial Structure
Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas (Edward L. Blake, Jr.).
Case Study D: The Readjusted Scales of Duration
A Private Summer Retreat, Western Maine (Michael Blier).
Case Study E: Working Materials
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana (Eric Fulford and Ann Reed).
Case Study F: Dimensions of Process and Change
Crissy Field: A Tidal Marsh Restoration, San Francisco, California (Mary Margaret Jones).
Case Study G: Aesthetics of Cultural Weathering
Moyland Elementary School Playground, Hartford, Connecticut;
Courtyard and Meditation Labyrinth, Chester, Connecticut (Mikyoung Kim).
Case Study H: Urban Legacies
Cook + Phillip Park, Sydney, Australia (Elizabeth Mossop).
Case Study I: Evolving Economies
Casa Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico (Margie Ruddick).
Case Study J: Maturing Practices
Advantica Plaza and Park, Spartanburg, South Carolina (Peter Lindsay Schaudt).
Case Study K: Perpetual Material
Aluminum Garden, New York, New York (Ken Smith).
Case Study L: Compressed
"Compressed": A Temporary Landscape Installation, Cazenovia, New York (H. Keith Wagner).
PART THREE: Afterword.
CHAPTER 5: ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES.
Bibliography and Further Reading.
Index.
