Landscape Design in Color

History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today

Mira Engler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-34395-5 (ISBN)

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This book is an inquiry into the themes, theories, and debates on color and its impact on practice in Western landscape architecture over the past three centuries. Richly designed and illustrated in full color throughout, this book is a must-have resource for students, scholars, and professionals in landscape architecture.

Architects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice. Over the past decade, there has been a reinvigorated discussion on color within architectural and cultural studies. Yet, scholarly enquiry within landscape architecture has been minimal despite its important role in landscape design.

This book posits that though color and lighting effects appear natural, fleeting, and difficult to comprehend, the sensory palette of built landscapes and gardens has been carefully constructed to shape our experience and evoke meaning and place character. Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today is an inquiry into the themes, theories, and debates on color and its impact on practice in Western landscape architecture over the past three centuries.

Divided into three key periods, each chapter in the book looks at the use of color in the written and built work of key prominent designers. The book investigates thematic juxtapositions such as: natural and artificial; color and line; design and draftsmanship; sensation and concept; imitation and translation; deception and display; and decoration and structure, and how these have appeared, faded, disappeared, and reappeared throughout the ages. Richly designed and illustrated in full color throughout, including color palettes, this book is a must-have resource for students, scholars, and design professionals in landscape architecture and its allied disciplines.

Mira Engler studied landscape architecture and architecture. She is an Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University. Her first book Designing America’s Waste Landscapes explores societal and professional attitudes toward waste and the design of dumps and sewage grounds. Her second book Cut and Paste Urban: Landscape: The Work of Gordon Cullen explores image making in landscape and urban design in the postwar consumer culture era through the drawings and writing of Gordon Cullen. She currently studies immersive landscapes and virtual media culture.

Part I: Pre-Modernism 1. Structural Color: Uniform Verdure, Humphry Repton (1752–1818) 2. Artificial Color: Bright and Complementary, J. C. Loudon (1783–1843) 3. Color as Impression: Graduated Harmony, William Robinson (1838–1935) and Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) Part II: Modernism 4. Material and Phenomenal Color: Simultaneous Contrast, Gabriel Guevrekian (1900–70) 5. Spatial Color: A-Chrome, Garrett Eckbo (1910–2000) 6. Symphony of Color: Tropical Saturation, Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94) Part III: Postmodernism, Onward 7. Conceptual Color: Purely Synthetic, Martha Schwartz (b. 1950) 8. Affective Light Color: Translucence, Petra Blaisse (b. 1955) 9. Color Now: Gender, Skin, and Screen Postscript: Color Prospects

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	189 Halftones, color; 189 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	960 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	1-138-34395-1 / 1138343951
ISBN-13	978-1-138-34395-5 / 9781138343955
Zustand	Neuware