Overview
- Collaborations with Norman Foster, Thomas Herzog, Otto Steidle and others
- Indispensable for a deeper understanding of present-day landscape design
- By renowned author on landscape architecture Udo Weilacher
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Landscape architecture as cultural valorization
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Layers of information. How does landscape work?
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Dealing with “bad places”
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Design as experimental invention
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About this book
Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park in Germany, the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg, Parco Dora in Turin, Italy and numerous other projects designed and built by Peter Latz and Partners stand as examples of an up-to-date and intelligent approach to alternative environmental technologies and the reclamation of extensive industrial landscapes. In Peter Latz’s landscape architecture, ecological and social concerns are translated into an individual aesthetic language that aims to achieve a timeless quality. The different layers and meanings of the sites rich in history are revealed and woven into networks of spatial and temporal relationships that follow rules of their own – the syntax of landscape. A sense of process and dynamism in sustainable landscape structures characterises the works, works that are open for change: they are spaces in development, not parks as finite set pieces
Peter Latz teaches at the Technische Universität (Technical University) in Munich-Weihenstephan and has held guest professorships at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Udo Weilacher is dean of the Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft (School of Architecture and Landscape) at Hanover University.
About the author
Udo Weilacher is a professor at Hanover University. He has served as the director of the Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur (Institute of Landscape Architecture) since 2002 and is currently dean of the Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft (School of Architecture and Landscape).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Syntax of Landscape
Book Subtitle: The Landscape Architecture of Peter Latz and Partners
Authors: Udo Weilacher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8277-3
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 199
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 264 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape Architecture, Building Types and Functions, Urbanism