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Preserving modern landscape architecture II : making postwar landscapes visible /

Title
Preserving modern landscape architecture II : making postwar landscapes visible / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum with Jane Brown Gillette and Nancy Slade ; sponsors, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill.
Publication
Washington, DC : Spacemaker Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States (Project) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89605030
  • Columbia University. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024714
  • Cultural Landscape Foundation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005043144
  • Historic Landscape Initiative (Project) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93103575
  • Wave Hill, inc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089600
Description
128 p. : ill., plans, maps; 27 cm.
Series Statement
Landmarks
Uniform Title
Landmarks (Washington, D.C.)
Alternative Title
Making postwar landscapes visible
Subjects
Note
  • "Preserving Modern Landscape Architecure II: Making post war landscapes visible, the follow-up to the 1995 conference dedicated to the same topic, was held at Wave Hill and Columbia University in New York City on April 5-6, 2002"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Moving beyond the picturesque and making postwar landscape architecture visible / Charles A. Birnbaum -- Preserve some, yes, but also improve, add to, and let some go / Laurie Olin -- Modern landscape at risk / Stuart O. Dawson -- Then and now / M. Paul Friedberg -- Social force: the urban optimism of M. Paul Friedberg / Paul Bennett -- Preserving the designed landscape / Lawrence Halprin -- Skyline park: preservation ethics and public space / Mark W. Johnson -- Case study: Manhattan Square Park, Rochester, New York / Ken Smith -- Church, Eckbo, Halprin, and the modern urban landscape / Marc Treib -- Preserving modern architecture and landscape architecture in Columbus, Indiana / Meg Storrow, John Kinsella -- Dan Kiley: planting on the grid / Gregg Bleam -- New parks for New York / Donald Richardson -- The nature of modernity: principles for keeping historic landscapes alive / Grant R. Jones -- Designating modern cultural landscapes in Canada / Michael McClelland -- Observations on a modernist: Sir Peter Shepheard / Edward Bennis -- The origin of the profession of lanscape architecture in Portugal during the modern movement / Cristina Castel-Branco -- The last landscape / Richard Longstreth -- The wave hill charter.
ISBN
0974963208 (pbk.)
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library