Architecture : Landscape

Shows how the principles of design can be developed to make housing contribute positively to quality urban environments more...

Price: $43.95

An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies - also known as 'garden houses' - have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line drawings, including compelling details such as finials, doors, windows, and ventilators. more...

Price: $85.00

Discusses the remediation of degraded environments such as industrial landfills, mining sites, buried urban rivers, seriously polluted or effectively destroyed wetlands, Superfund sites, and abandoned factories. This book talks about the environmental perspectives of landscape architects and urban planners. more...

Price: $139.95

Interventions is a contribution to current considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect the development of cities. It draws together policies and projects for cultural urban interventions, from the UK, Lithuania, India, and North America. The authors include artists, arts managers, academics in cultural and geographical fields, and policy makers. The book has three sections: the first on policies and strategies for cultural intervention; the second on specific projects (a set of case studies); and the third includes two important research reports evaluating public art and cultural interventions in London, Exeter, the northeast of England, and Barcelona. more...

Price: $39.95

The original concept for Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process is to bring together the work and subject areas of a range of disciplines. This book demonstrates how the best integration can be achieved. more...

Price: $126.00