Peter Walker and Partners: Landscape Architecture Defining the Craft - Softcover

Peter Walker; Jane Brown Gillette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500342075 ISBN 13: 9780500342077

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) was formed in 1983.Their projects, executed worldwide, vary both in scale and type: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas and gardens. Exploring the relationships between art, culture and context, Peter Walker re-forms the landscape whether urban or natural and challenges traditional concepts of design. This book features the companys work from the last seven years, all of which brilliantly showcases the firms range. It includes sixteen built projects in Europe, Asia and the United States parks, corporate headquarters, foundations, museums and urban plazas; seven works in progress, including the American Embassy in Beijing and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City; and ten site planning and urbandesign projects, among them millennium parklands in Sydney,Australia and Novartis Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.The book opens with a short essay about the organization and philosophy of the office, the partners and associates, and the particular way that PWP practises the craft of landscape architecture. It concludes with four competitions, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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HardCover Pub Date: 2005 Publisher: Thames & Hudson. Limited The first monograoh We on Peter Walker.. the internationally renowned landscape architect.

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Peter Walker is the most important landscape architect working today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0500342075
• ISBN 13: 9780500342077
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244