Description
Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning, and the environment,
landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture.
Typically, as little as three percent of a project’s construction budget is
allocated to the space that surrounds a building, but that is changing. A
greater desire to blend buildings into their contexts, ecological considerations,
legislation, and new definitions of “scaping” have opened up exciting
possibilities.
Coinciding with heightened social sensitivities, advances in material
application, data-driven mapping techniques, and digital technologies and
construction methods, landscape designers are producing a new wave of
work around the world, reshaping gardens, public squares, leisure areas, and
industrial parks. Among the practices included in this survey are designers
who have bridged modernism with newer forms (Emergent, West 8); architects
whose work fuses with the earth’s contours (Zaha Hadid, MVRDV);
and a generation of designers only just emerging from universities.
Nadia Amoroso is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University
of Toronto and has lectured at Harvard and Cornell universities.
Reviews
Amoroso …Takes an in-depth look at how buildings and public art are being blended into landscapes.
— Public Art Review
Contributors
Nadia Amoroso
Director
Nadia Amoroso is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto and has lectured at Harvard and Cornell universities.
