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Associate Professor Laurence A. Clement, Jr., J.D., ASLA
Department of Landscape Architecture /Regional and Community Planning
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Kansas State University
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... recommended readings; the second part. Back to the first, third and fourth parts.

p a r t 2. Designers / Artists / Firms

"In a context of rapid growth and change, such as in Mexico or other Latin American countries, where instant cities can grow overnight, the permanence and certitude of designed open space gives direction and form to the city, a projection of the future. Urban open space -- the void -- is not the remnant of architecture but the spatial essence of the city, its form and its sense of being."

Mario Schjetnan, as quoted by John Beardsley in Ten Landscapes: Mario Schjetnan at p. 15.

Again, a good starting point for research, highly visual: Pierluigi Nicolin and Francesco Repishti, A Dictionary of Today's Landscape Designers. Skira... SB 469.37.D53 2003

The list below is just a start; see also the Wikipedia entries for landscape architects.

Josh Cheek, who has worked with John Galloway at 40 NORTH, recommends the Landezine website for a great gallery/blog of current landscape architecture work..

40 NORTH

John Galloway, http://www.40northdesign.com/

Ambasz, Emilio

Irace, Fulvio, Emilio Ambasz: A Technological Arcadia, Skira books, NA 839 .A66 I73 2004
http://www.ambasz.com/
http://www.emilioambaszandassociates.com/

Andersson, Sven-Ingvar

Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, p. 157

Balmori, Diana

Balmori Associates, NYC and New Haven, CT

Balsley, Thomas

www.tbany.com
Thomas Balsley: The urban landscape Landmarks 11. Spacemaker Press, c 2001. SB470.B35 .T56 2001

Balston, Michael

Ten Landscapes Series. 2001. Rockport Publishers, Inc.

Bargmann, Julie

http://www.time.com/time/innovators/design/profile_bargmann.html
D.I.R.T. studio .... reclamation of mined land into artistic public space
http://www.idca.org/2003/bargmannbio.htm

Barragan, Luis

Invisible Gardens. Ch. 2 The Garden as Art
Zanco, Ferderica, Luis Barragan: The Quiet Revolution, NA759 .B36 L863 2001
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/barragan1.html
http://www.pritzkerprize.com/barragan.htm
http://architecture.mit.edu/~anarodz/matrixbig.html

Bleam, Gregg

http://www.archidose.org/Sep06/11/dose.html
http://www.gbla.net/ ..check out his firm's models and drawings for institutional projects...

Brunier, Yves

Jacques, M., ed. (1996). Yves Brunier Landscape Architect. Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag.

Burle Marx, Roberto

Montaro, Marta Iris (2001). Roberto Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape, Berkeley: U C Press. SB 470 .B87 M6613
Vaccarino, Rossana, ed. (2000). Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected, Landscape Views 3. New York: HGSD & Princeton Architectural Press. SB 470 .B87 R63 2000
Walker and Simo, Invisible Gardens. Ch. 2 The Garden as Art
Adams. The Unnatural Art of the Garden
Bardi, P.M. (1964) The Tropical Gardens of Burle Marx. NY: Reinhold Publishing ... "An essential and controversial point in the Burle Marx conception is that a garden should arouse a sense of wonder, a fine diversity and a feeling of euphoria through the arrangement of the masses and the colors ... " from the caption for an image of the Monteiro garden on p. 100.
Eliovson. Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx...

Burton, Pamela

www.volume5.com/101/index
James Trulove, ed. (1998). The New American Garden: Innovations in Residential Landscape Architecture. New York: Watson-Guptill.

Bye, A. E.

_______. (1983). Art into Landscape; Landscape into Art. Mesa Ariz.: PDA Publishers. SB470 B93 A33 1983.
Howett, Catherine, ed. (1990). Abstracting the Landscape: The Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E Bye. University Park: Department of Landscape Architecture, Penn. State Univ.
Obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/17/nyregion/arthur-edwin-bye-natural-garden-designer-dies-at-82.html

Calthorpe, Peter

_______ and William Fulton (2001) The Regional City, Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Christo and Jeanne Claude .. The Gates Central Park, New York 1979-2005 .

Church, Thomas

Invisible Gardens, Ch. 3

Civitas, Denver

http://www.civitasinc.com

Civitas, Vancouver

http://www.civitasdesign.com

Cochran, Andrea

Cormier, Claude

http://www.claudecormier.com/biography/
http://www.claudecormier.com/projects

Corner, James; Field Operations

http://www.fieldoperations.net/
http://blog.thehighline.org/2008/04/11/field-ops-to-design-the-countrys-largest-urban-park/
http://blog.thehighline.org/
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, (Ed.) 1999
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, with Alex MacClean and Dennis Cosgrove, 2000
Large Parks, with Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves, 2007

Crawford, Chip

VP, Director, the HOK Planning Group
http://www.hok.com/

Danadjieva, Angela

http://www.dkassociates.com/2.html

Delaney, Topher

Ten Landscapes Series. 2001. Rockport Publishers, Inc.

Desvigne, Michel

Dreiseitl, Herbert

http://www.dreiseitl.de/engl.htm
_____ with Dieter Grau and Karl H. C. Ludwig, eds. (2001). Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water. Basel Berlin Boston: Birkhauser. NA 2542.8 .W38 2001.

Eckbo, Garrett

Treib, Marc, and Dorothee Imbert.(1997). Garrett Eckbo. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press.
Garrett Eckbo: Philosophy of Landscape. Process Architecture #90 Tokyo, Japan, 1990.
Eckbo, Garrett, et al. (1998). People in a Landscape. SB 472.7 .P46 1998
www.gsd.harvard.edu/hdm/riley (review of Eckbo's book Landscape for Living, by Robert Riley)
Invisible Gardens, Ch. 4

Franklin, Carol

Andropogon Associates: http://www.andropogon.com/
http://www.andropogon.com/home.htm

Friedberg, M. Paul

Profiled in Building Stone Magazine, July/August/September 2000
Invisible Gardens, Ch. 5

Galloway, John

40NORTH http://www.40northdesign.com/

Geuze, Adriaan; West 8 (see West 8, below)

Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, at 229.

GreenWorks

http://www.greenworkspc.com/

Gross. Max. ... "a change of scenery"

http://www.grossmax.com/

Gustafson, Kathryn - Gustafson Porter Ltd. London

Kathryn Gustafson: Sculpting the Land, ed. by Leah Levy. Landmarks Series, No. 5, Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, MA: Spacemaker Press, 1998.
Moving Horizons - The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners, by Jane Amidon. Birkhauser. SB472 .A47 2005.
for current work in Europe go to: Topos: European Landscape Magazine and use the finder service of the journal
Competition win: http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/dpowmf/images.htm
Competition win: http://www.lebanon.com/construction/the.quarterly/2000/jan-mar/events.htm
http://www.chrysler.com/design/design_influences/design_awards/2001/kgustafson.html

Haag, Richard

www.bloedelreserve.org
Invisible Gardens. Ch. 7 The Modernization of the Schools
Wm. Saunders, ed. (1998). Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park. Landscape Views 1. New York: HGSD & Princeton Architectural Press.

Halprin, Lawrence

Invisible Gardens, Ch. 5

Hamilton, Ann

Hargreaves, George (in Cambridge, and Mary Margaret Jones in San Francisco)

www.hargreaves.com
www.gsd.harvard.edu/faculty/hargreaves/hargreav
www.gsd.harvard.edu/depts/larchdep
#128 George Hargreaves: Landscape Works. Tokyo: Process: Architecture, 1996
P/A Profile: Hargreaves Associates, Progressive Architecture, vol. 90, no. 7 July 1989.
Brenda Brown, "Avant-Gaurdism and Landscape Architecture," Landscape Journal, Fall 1991
Barbara Goldstein, "Harlequin Plaza" Landscape Architecture, July 1983
Laurie Olin, "Form, Meaning, and Expression in Landscape Architecture," Landscape Architecture Fall 1988
J. William Thompson, "Metamorphosis," Landscape Architecture September 1999.
Profiled in Building Stone Magazine, July/August/September 2000

Heizer, Michael

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Heizer

Hilderbrand, Gary

Reed | Hilderbrand Associates

Hood, Walter

Walter Hood: Urban Diaries. ed. by Leah Levy. Landmarks Series, No. 2. Spacemaker Press, 1997.

Irwin, Robert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(artist)
http://www.getty.edu/visit/see_do/gardens.html Central Garden at the Getty Center...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Center
http://www.getty.edu/visit/

Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey

_______, The Landscape of Man
Micheal Spens, Gardens of the mind: the genius of Geoffrey Jellicoe.SB470.J45 S84 1992

Jensen, Jens

In Regional Garden Design in the United States, edited by Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib, published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., 1995, see the following chapters:
The Prairie Gardens of O.C. Simonds and Jens Jensen .... Jens Jensen's park and residential work ...some interesting residential collaborations with Frank Lloyd Wright (chapter 4, pp. 99 -124);
Wilhelm Miller and The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening (a publication by the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station) (chapter 10, pp. 271 -276); and
The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening, Circular 184 (1915) (chapter 11, pp. 277-312).

Johnson, Carol R.

Jones & Jones

www.jonesandjones.com
Grant Jones, Jones & Jones/ILARIS: The Puget Sound Plan (Source Books in Landscape Architecture) by Jane Amidon

Judd, Donald

Jungles, Raymond

Stephen Dunn. (1999). Ten Landscapes: Raymond Jungles, Rockport Publishers, Inc. SB470 .J85 R39 1999

Kahn, Louis

Phllips Exeter Academy Library
For more information about Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, visit www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org.

FDR Four Freedoms Park, NY, NY construction covered in Architectural Record, April 25, 2012

Karavan, Dani

Dani Karavan, by Pierre Restany, 1992 N 7279 K37 R47 1992
The World of Landscape Architects, The World of Environmental Design, by Francisco Asensio Cerver SB 469.9 .A84 1995

Kieran Timberlake Associates, Architects

http://kierantimberlake.com/home/index.html

Kiley, Daniel Urban

#108 Dan Kiley: Landscape Design II, In Step with Nature. Tokyo: Process: Architecture, 1993
Invisible Gardens. Ch. 6 The Lone Classicist
Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens, William S. Saunders, ed., Landscape Views 2, HGSD and Princeton Architectural Press, New York, NY, 1999
Dan Kiley: The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect, by Jane Amidon and Dan Kiley. SB 470 .K55 1999
... and various Landscape Architecture Magazine articles

Lassus, Bernard

http://www.bernard-lassus.com/
Lassus, The Landscape Approach, SB472 .L375 1998
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1102.html
Weilacher, Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art SB472 .W5513 1996
Sutherland, Designing the New Landscape SB472 .L89 1991
Conan, The Crazannes quarries by Bernard Lassus : an essay analyzing the creation of a landscape SB470.L377 C663 2004

Latz (Peter) + Partner

http://www.latzundpartner.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Latz
www.metropolismag.com/new/oct_content/lat
Weilacher, Udo (2008) Syntax of Landscape: the Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partners. Birkhauser. SB 470 .L3 W45 2008

Lin, Maya

Lukez, Paul

2007. Suburban Transformations, Princeton Architectural Press. HT 351 .L85 2007

Martino, Steve

Cerver, Francisco Asensio The World of Environmental Design The World of Landscape Architects, vol. ? SB 469.9 .A84 1995
Trulove, James, ed., The New American Garden: Innovations in American Residential Landscape Architecture, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1998.
http://www.stevemartino.net

Masuno, Shunmyo

Ten Landscapes: Shunmyo Masuno. 1999. Rockport Publishers, Inc. SB470 .M3 T78 1999

Mayer/Reed

http://www.mayerreed.com/

McHarg, Ian

____________, Design with Nature
Invisible Gardens, Ch. 9

Messervy, Julie Moir

www.juliemoirmesservy.com
The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning
Toronto Music Garden, with Yo-Yo Ma
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/parks/music_index.htm

Mithūn | Architects + Designers + Planners

http://www.mithun.com/

Mosbach, Catherine

Murase, Robert

Robert Murase: Stone and Water. ed by Micheal Leccese. Landmarks Series, No. 3. Spacemaker Press, 1997(?).
Profiled in Building Stone Magazine, July/August/September 2000

Nelson Byrd Woltz

Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

NIPpaysage

Noguchi, Isamu

Invisible Gardens. Ch. 2 The Garden as Art
Ashton. Noguchi East and West ....

Oehme, Wolfgang and James van Sweden

______. Bold Romantic Gardens: The New World Landscapes of Oehme and van Sweden. Spacemaker Press, 1998.
# 130 Wolfgang Oehme & James van Sweden: New World Landscapes. Tokyo: Process: Architecture, 1996.
http://www.ovsla.com/
James van Sweden, Architecture in the Garden, New York: Random House, 2002
_______________, Gardening with Water

Olin, Laurie

http://www.theolinstudio.com/#/home
_____. Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscape, SB470.55 .G7 O44 2000
The Rebirth of New York City's Bryant Park. Landmarks Series, No. 4. Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, MA: Spacemaker Press, 1997.
_______. "Landscape Transformation" in Rants and Raves (concerning Charles Birnbaum's criticism of Bryant Park), Land Forum 03, 1999
______. Transforming the Common Place. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996
______. "Regionalism and the Practice of Hanna/Olin, Ltd." In Regional Garden Design in the United States, edited by Theresa O'Malley and Marc Treib, Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996.
Witold Rybcszynski. "Urban Planning: Moving the Liberty Bell." In the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1998.
Profiled in Building Stone Magazine, July/August/September 2000

Olmsted, Frederick Law

www.newbedford.com/olmsted
Rybczynski, Witold. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, New York: Scribner, 1999. The section on Distant Effects identifies the FLO literature, at p. 417.

Oslund, Thomas

oslund.and.assoc www.oaala.com
See Landscape Architect and Specifier News, April 2012 pp. 70-74 for an article by Tadd Kreun, FASLA on the new 35W Bridge Rememberance Garden in Minneapolis, MN.
http://www.oaala.com/projects/35W%20Memorial/35W%20Remembrance.htm

Oudolf, Piet

.. selected by the Battery Conservancy to design the Gardens of Remembrance which will be developed at the tip of NYC's Manhattan Island, near the World Trade Center site.

http://www.oudolf.com
http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/features/2003/oudolf/index.html
Designing with plants. Piet Oudolf with Nokl Kingsbury. 1999. SB407 .O83 1999
Dream plants for the natural garden. Henk Gerritsen and Piet Oudolf. 2000. SB407 .G4713 2000
Gardening with grasses. Michael King and Piet Oudolf; foreword by Beth Chatto. 1998. SB431.7 .K5513 1998

Page, Russell

see Olin, L. Across the Open Field, pp. 227-231 for description of work at Longleat

Patchett, James, et al. .. Conservation Design Forum, Inc

http://www.cdfinc.com/index.html

Pepper, Beverly

Beverly Pepper: Three Site-Specific Sculptures, ed. by Barbara Rose. Landmarks Series, No. 6, Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, MA: Spacemaker Press, 1997(?).
http://www.artsystem.it/en/pepper/opere_e.htm

Pinto, Jody

"Stellar motion: A new sculpture garden at Pasadena City College" Landscape Architecture, April 2000, pp. 69 ff.
http://www.artheals.org/artists/Pinto_Jody_128/
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p&g/boonepas/boone.htm
http://www.paccd.cc.ca.us/instadmn/engtech/caddmd/sculpt.htm

Public Art & Practice

http://www.publicartandpractice.com/index.html

Reed, Chris

SToSS: www.stoss.net

Rockwell Group: David Rockwell, Architect

http://www.rockwellgroup.com/

Royston, Robert

"Space over time" Landscape Architecture, November 2000, p. 82.

Ruddick, Margie

Saitowitz, Stanley, AIA (designed the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston)

Sasaki Associates, Inc.

www.sasaki.com
Sasaki Associates: Integrated Environments, Landscape Art and Architecture series, Spacemaker Press, 1997.
Invisible Gardens, Ch. 7, 8

Schjetnan, Mario.... Grupo de Diseño Urbano

"A critical regionalist" by Louise Wyman in Landscape Design, February 1997, p 10 ff. NA1 . L3 no. 257
Ten Landscapes Series. 2002. Rockport Publishers, Inc.

Schwartz, Martha

www.marthaschwartz.com
www.gsd.harvard.edu/faculty/schwartz/index
Martha Schwartz: Transfiguration of the Commonplace, ed. by Heidi Landecker. Landscape Art and Architecture Series. Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, MA: Spacemaker Press, 1997. This book starts with an essay called Transfiguration of the Common Place by Elizabeth K. Meyer. Here is its bibliography:
Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels, The Iconography of Landscape. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Danto, Arthur C. The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, and Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Jackson, J. B. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Van Valkenburgh, Michael. Transforming the American Garden: 12 New Landscape Designs. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1986.
... note also that Critiques of Built Work, 1995 contains an essay on Martha Schwartz’s work by Sigrid Cook, then a graduate student of E. K. Meyer at UVA.
Paul Bennett, "Dance of the Drumlins... Martha Schwartz's Minneapolis adventures," Landscape Architecture August 1999.

S.I.T.E. (James Wines)

New York: Rizzoli, 1989. (S.I.T.E. = Sculpture in the Environment)

Smith, Ken

Ken Smith Landscape Architect: Urban Projects. Source Books in Landscape Architecture 2, Jane Amidon, series editor, Princeton Arch'l Press. SB 470 .S57 K46 2006
Wikipedia entry

Smithson, Robert

Hobbs, Robert. (1981). Robert Smithson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

http://www.robertsmithson.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson

Sorensen, C. Th.

Bosselman, Peter. "Landscape Architecture as Art: C. Th. Sorensen. A Humanist," Landscape Journal, v. 17., no.1, 1998.

Spitz, Katherine

http://www.volume5.com/101/index.html

Starke, Barry W.

Profiled in Building Stone Magazine, July/August/September 2000

Steele, Fletcher

SUNY ESF website/archives
Naumkeag

Stimson, Stephen

Ten Landscapes Series. 2002. Rockport Publishers, Inc.

Stone, Edward D.

Profiled in Building Stone Magazine, July/August/September 2000

Sullivan, Chip

Garden and Climate, with a forward by Marc Treib SB 472.45 .S855 2002

Ten Eyck, Christine

"Desert flower" [La Casita de Maria, Phoenix, Arizona] by Rachel S. Cox. Garden design 1992 Sept.-Oct., v.11, n.4, p.[52]-58. AB G163
"A question of healing" by J. William Thompson. Landscape architecture 1998 Apr., v.88, n.4, p.[66]-73,89-92. AB L232
"Return of the natives" by Michael Leccese. Landscape architecture 1996 Feb., v.86, n.2, p.[80]-87,101, ISSN 0023-8031. (Employing an extensive vocabulary of native plants and insisting that a regional aesthetic be embraced ... ) AB L232
"Le rocce del deserto = Desert rocks" [Deer Valley Rock Art Center] by Richard Ingersoll. Lotus international 1998, n.97, p.[24]-37. The Planning Center, Christine E. Ten Eyck. Phoenix (Arizona)--Deer Valley Rock Art Center. AB L91

Tollemache, Xa

http://www.xa-tollemache.co.uk/index.php

Turenscape, Kongjian Yu

The Big-Foot Revolution in Ecological Urbanism, pp. 282 - 291.

Turrell, James

Vandewalle & Associates, Madison, WI

Van Valkenburgh, Michael

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/faculty/valkenburgh/valkenburg.html
http://www.mvvainc.com/
Green Roof: A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Christian Werthmann
Design with the land: landscape architecture of Michael van Valkenburgh, Brooke Hodge, editor, New York : Princeton Arch'l Press, 1994 SB470.V34 D47 1994
Michael Van Valkenburgh: Allegheny Riverfront Park. Source Books in Landscape Architecture 1, Jane Amidon, series editor. Princeton Arch'l Press.
"Eudoxia: A New Civic Landscape", in Transforming the American Garden: 12 New Landscape Designs. Cambridge: Harvard GSD, 1986.

Kay, Jane Holtz, "Metal and Machine", LAM, October 1992

Dean, Andrea Oppenhiemmer, "Turning Point", LAM, October 1998.

Vitale, Ferruccio

Schnadelbach, R. Terry (2001) Ferruccio Vitale: Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, New York: Princeton Architectural Press SB 470 .V58 S36 2001. .... Civic commissions included the second World's Fair at Chicago, A Century of Progress Exposition (1933-34), on the same site as Olmsted's and Burnham's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. .. see p. 255. As in the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901, the use of artificial light is amazing.

Walker, Peter

www.pwpla.com
www.gsd.harvard.edu/publications/walker
Peter Walker: Minimalist Gardens, by Leah Levy and P. W.; Washington, D.C.: Spacemaker Press, 1997.
#118 Peter Walker William Johnson and Partners: Art and Nature, Process: Architecture, 1994.
Peter Walker. New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Jewell, Linda, ed.
Peter Walker and Partners: Nasher Sculpture Center Garden: Source Books in Landscape Architecture by Jane Amidon
Tanner Fountain | The Landmark Award | 2008 (PW w/ The SWA Group) http://asla.org/awards/2008/08winners/312.html

Walker - Macy

Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial
http://www.walkermacy.com/ ... in Portland, OR

West 8; Adriaan Geuze et al..

http://www.west8.nl/
http://www.west8.nl/news/
http://www.west8.nl/projects/
collaborations with Zaha Hadid are pretty interesting...
Mosaics - West 8

Wheelock, Morgan

Gillette, Jane Brown, "Kentucky Romance" in Landscape Architecture, vol. 88, no. 9, September 1998, p. 59

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