Research Catalog

Title

Waterstained landscapes : seeing and shaping regionally distinctive places / Joan Woodward ; drawings by Kiku Kurahashi.

Author

Woodward, Joan, 1958-

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xiv, 221 p. : ill., maps, plans; 23 cm.

Summary

• "A refreshing change from abstract writings about landscape architecture, Waterstained Landscapes is an illustrated essay, narrated by a fictional landscape architect, Ann Crane, who moves from Los Angeles to Colorado's Front Range. Through the imaginary Crane, author Joan Woodward argues that deriving landscape designs from the natural patterns and processes of a particular region is a key to creating distinctive, appropriate, and manageable designs."
• "Combining elements of a journal, sketchbook, notebook, and textbook, Waterstained Landscapes focuses on the Denver region and the dry West, Protagonist Crane learns that tracing the "waterstain"--Water concentration and accompanying plant responses - is like reading the braille of western landscapes, a hidden text that reveals information about natural processes and human values. The book describes the regional processes that shape these plant patterns, and goes on to explore how natural and cultural mechanisms change and affect designed and undesigned landscapes over time.
• Woodward takes special note of the evolution of landscape design eras, following the fate of one house as its garden changes under the influence of different styles and various owners' tastes."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Center books on contemporary landscape design

Uniform Title

Center books on contemporary landscape design

Subject

• Landscape architecture
• Landscape assessment
• Regional planning
• Landscape architecture > Colorado
• Landscape assessment > Colorado
• Regional planning > Colorado
• regional planning
• Landschaftsplanung
• Colorado
• Staat Colorado

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Kenneth Helphand -- Settling down -- Seeing the waterstain -- Pattern sources -- Fingerprints of the formative processes -- Patterns of place -- The stumbling-forward ache -- Planting evidence -- There's no home like place.

ISBN

• 0801862000
• 9780801862007

LCCN

99026764

OCLC

• ocm41131758
• 41131758
• SCSB-9005980

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library