Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates reconstructing urban landscapes edited by Anita Berrizbeitia ; foreword by Paul Goldberger.
Idioma: Español Detalles de publicación: [New Haven, Conn. London Yale University Press] c2009.Descripción: 320 p. ill., maps, plans 29 cmISBN:- 9780300135855 (hbk.)
- Reconstructing urban landscapes
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Explores the responses of a world-renowned landscape design firm to the difficult demands of urban areas
Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul Goldberger notes, to "make you see everything, city and nature alike, with a striking intensity."
Richly illustrated and handsomely designed, this is the first publication to explore a wide range of MVVA's projects, focusing on the firm's trend toward sites requiring complex technological solutions. Leading critics and historians look at twelve projects, dating from 1992 to the present, and each posing a challenge--such as contamination, isolation, and lengthy public approval proceedings. They explore the process through which the firm researches such issues and how solutions are embedded in the final aesthetics and spatial structure of the sites.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-302) and index.
Foreword / Paul Goldberger -- MVVA in context / Anita Berrizbeitia -- Mill Race Park: at the threshold / Jane Amidon -- Allegheny Riverfront Park: material, event, sensation / Jane Amidon -- Herman Miller Factory : suburban sublime / Elissa Rosenberg -- Tahari Courtyards: material connections / Linda Pollak -- Alumnae Valley, Wellesley College: redefining the campus landscape / Peter Fergusson -- Teardrop Park: elective affinities / Erik de Jong -- A landscape-based approach to the design of three plazas: Bailey Plaza, Cornell University, Boston Children's Museum, Union Square Park's North End, New York / Rachel Gleeson -- Brooklyn Bridge Park: the complex edge / Ethan Carr -- Metaphor remediation: a new ecology for the city: The High Line competition, Toronto Port Lands competition / Andrew Blum.
Worldwide Books, Jun/26/2009, 2009-1080.
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This anthology of ten essays on the urban landscape architecture projects of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) focuses on sites that needed complete or extensive reconstruction-thus, most of the projects are for difficult sites in postindustrial cities. In the opening essay, Berrizbeitia (landscape architecture, Univ. of Pennsylvania) provides an overview of the selected projects and the evolution of this well-respected and well-known firm's designs. The following nine essays by scholars and designers consider 12 projects spanning MVVA's 27-year history, from Mill Race Park (Columbus, IN, 1989-93) to the ongoing work on the Brooklyn Bridge Park (2003-12). Although there have been several recent publications on individual projects, this is the first volume to cover the firm's work broadly since Design with the Land: The Landscape Architecture of Michael Van Valkenburgh (1994). Verdict The authors' detailed analyses of the projects are well illustrated with plans and many full-spread color photographs; will be appreciated by design students and others with an interest in landscape architecture or urban projects.-Amy Trendler, Ball State Univ. Libs., Muncie, IN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Anita Berrizbeitia is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul Goldberger is an architecture critic for The New Yorker and the Joseph Urban Professor of Design and Architecture at The New School.