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In the field of landscape architecture, there is no more distinguished voice than Michael Van Valkenburgh, and it therefore seems appropriate that we begin this new Source Books in Landscape series with his recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city’s efforts to restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh, along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed an ambitious plan to reform the wasted land along the river into an urban refuge. The celebrated collaboration between landscape architect and artist produced a thoughtful, useful, and beautiful park that has successfully renewed the city’s core. Source Books in Landscape Architecture, produced in collaboration with Ohio State University, will provide detailed documentation of important new projects, following its development from conception through completion using sketches, drawings, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs.

Landscape architects --- Landscape architecture --- Architects --- Van Valkenburgh, Michael --- Valkenburgh, Michael Van --- Allegheny Riverfront Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.) --- Parken ; Pittsburgh --- Allegheny Riverfront Park --- Architecture. --- Landscape Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Landscape architecture. --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Van Valkenburgh, Michael R.

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This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary.

Mathematics. --- Mathematics, general. --- Mathématiques --- Architecture -- History. --- Architecture. --- Mathematical Theory --- Architecture --- Mathematics --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Architecture, Renaissance --- Palladio, Andrea, --- Palladio, A. --- Palladio, André, --- Palladio, --- Andrea, --- Buildings. --- Architecture / Design. --- Building Types and Functions. --- Math --- Science --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Built environment

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These days, whether you're designing a building or a toaster, a savvy knowledge of materials is increasingly critical. And keeping up with the constant flow of new materials, let alone their applications, properties, and sources, is an increasingly difficult and time-consuming task. Blaine Erickson Brownell, author of Transmaterial, known to thousands of web users for his "product of the week" email service alerting designers to new materials that are reshaping our world, has created this handy and affordable reference to the most interesting and most useful new materials now available. Transmaterial is indexed in multiple ways for the sake of maximum convenience, and utilizes the new CSI Master- Format 2004 product categorization system. With more than 200 materials, organized by category, described, pictured, and annotated with technical and sourcing information, this catalog is an essential tool for any architect or designer interested in keeping up with the rapid developments in the field of materials, looking for a source of inspiration for their designs, or just eager to get their hands on real materials in an effort to understand the incredibly innova-tive palette now available to us.

Materials --- Matériaux --- Technological innovations. --- Catalogs --- Innovations --- Catalogues --- EPUB-LIV-FT SPRINGER-B LIVARCHI --- 745.5 --- beton --- bouwmaterialen --- composietmaterialen --- designmaterialen --- glas --- hout --- licht --- materialenkennis --- metaal --- plastic --- rubber --- steen --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Technological innovations --- designmaterialen - algemeen --- Architecture. --- Design. --- Architecture, general. --- Design, general. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction

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Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. But at the same time art’s inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.

Philosophy. --- Phenomenology. --- Ethics. --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy of Man. --- Aesthetics. --- Philosophy (General). --- Esthétique --- Morale --- Métaphysique --- Phénoménologie --- Philosophie --- Husserl, Edmund, --- Art --- Inspiration in art --- Techne (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Aesthetics -- Congresses. --- Ethics -- Congresses. --- Metaphysics -- Congresses. --- Phenomenology -- Congresses. --- Philosophy -- Congresses. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Visual Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Art. --- Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Design and construction --- Philosophy, general. --- Building --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Phenomenology . --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Values --- Philosophy, Modern --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Husserl, Edmund, - 1859-1938.

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Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes—from public parks to backyards—to be not only beautiful and functional, but also sustainable. Sustainability means more than just saving energy and resources. It requires integrating the landscapes we design with ecological systems. With Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, Travis Beck gives professionals and students the first book to translate the science of ecology into design practice. This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers biogeography and plant selection, assembling plant communities, competition and coexistence, designing ecosystems, materials cycling and soil ecology, plant-animal interactions, biodiversity and stability, disturbance and succession, landscape ecology, and global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape. The demand for this information is rising as professional associations like the American Society of Landscape Architects adopt new sustainability guidelines (SITES). But the need goes beyond certifications and rules. For constructed landscapes to perform as we need them to, we must get their underlying ecology right. Principles of Ecological Landscape Design provides the tools to do just that.

Landschapsecologie --- Landschap --- Landschapsbeleid (landschapsbescherming) --- Ecologie --- 712 --- Landschapsarchitectuur. Tuinkunst. Parkaanleg --- Ecological landscape design. --- Ecosystem health. --- Ecological landscape design --- Ecosystem health --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Environmental Sciences --- 712 Landschapsarchitectuur. Tuinkunst. Parkaanleg --- Ecological health --- Health, Ecological --- Health, Ecosystem --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- Environment. --- Science. --- Landscape architecture. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Applied ecology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Environment, general. --- Landscape Architecture. --- Urbanism. --- Science, general. --- Applied Ecology. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Applied ecology --- Landscape design --- Environmental sciences. --- Architecture. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Environmental science --- Science --- Design and construction --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Government policy --- Management