Contents
Foreword by Martha Schwartz 8
Introduction by Tim Richardson 9
ESSAYS
Concept 32
The theoretical basis for - and a definition of landscape conceptualism. 32
History 96
The ways in which conceptualist designers both deny and embrace ideas of history.
Nature 144
Conceptual1sts lead the charge against lazy, politically expedient ·eco· solutions.
Plants and Other Materials 200
Colour, artificiality, surrealism and green growing things.
Maxims Towards a Conceptualist Attitude to Landscape Design 232
More mlni-festo than manifesto: notes on conceptualist reality.
The Conceptualist Garden Show 264
The best international showcase for conceptual work?
Psychotopia 304
An anatomy of landscape atmosphere: the importance of invisibles.
DESIGNERS
Atelier Big City 10
MONTREAL
Trio of achitects who play with concepts of scale, colour, volume, material and structure.
Lodewijk Balijon 14
AMSTERDAM
Analytical design with an emphasis on elegance and a certain 'looseness'.
Thomas Balsley 18
NEW YORK
Modernist landscape architecture with conceptualist tweaks.
Julia Barton 22
NORTHUMBERLAND [UK]
Conceptualist artist working on large-scale installations using plant material.
BCA Landscape 26
LIVERPOOL (UK)
Industrial and folk memories provide source material for inner-city conceptural practice.
Petra Blaisse 42
AMSTERDAM
Highly personalized corss-disciplinary art projects.
Jean-Pierre Brazs 48
PARIS
Site-specific land art and conceptualist sculpture.
Susanne Burger 54
MUNICH
Outdoor conceptualist installations in functional landscape-architecture settings.
Cao Perrot Studio 60
LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK AND PARIS
Deeply personalized conceptual statements utilizing innovative materials.
Paul Cooper 66
POWYS [UK]
Pioneering material experimentation including use of exterior video.
Claude Cormier 70
MONTREAL
Exuberant, witty, no-holds-barred urban landscape conceptualism.
Topher Delaney 78
SAN FRANCISCO
Complex and vividly realized garden spaces that unite architecture and horticulture .
Herbert Dreiseitl 86
UBERLINGEN [GERMANY)
The world's leading conceptualist water designer, a maker of liquid narratives .
DS Landschapsarchitecten 90
AMSTERDAM
Long-established art-based conceptualist practice characterized by clarity of vision .
Monika Gora 106
MALMO [SWEDEN)
Strident forms and ideas which blur the boundaries between art and design .
Gross.Max 114
EDINBURGH
Colourful and 1maginat1ve public-space solutions which address the complexities of the urban environment.
Gustafson Porter 122
LONDON AND SEATTLE
Elegantly sculpted, coolly uncluttered public space design.
Fritz Haeg 130
LOS ANGELES
Provocative horticultural installations in suburbia.
Paula Hayes 132
NEW YORK
A distinctive artistic vision melded with horticultural curiosity
Tony Heywood 138
LONDON
Dramatic landscape installations, massive writhing forms and botanical minutiae.
Patricia Johanson 154
BUSKIRK [USA]
Ecologically inspired organo-conceptualism from Korea to Canada.
Karres en Brands 156
HILVERSUM [THE NETHERLANDS]
Uncompromisingly high-concept public park design.
Klahn + Singer 160
KARLSRUHE (GERMANY)
Horticultural and architectural formal experimentation go hand in hand.
Land-I 166
ROME
Art collective who construct highly worked-out landscape installations.
Die LandschaftsArchitekten 170
WIESBADEN (GERMANY)
Structural minimalism offset by extensive plantings and conceptual humour.
Lutzow 7 180
BERLIN
Long-established deconstructivist practice promoting a visionary conceptual outlook.
William Martin 184
NOORAT [AUSTRALIA]
Individualist garden-maker melding sculptural artefacts and botanical know-how.
Shunrnyo Masuno 186
YOKOHAMA [JAPAN]
Classical Japanese design meets contemporary landscape conceptualism.
Metagardens 194
LONDON
Organically morphing and growing garden and building structures.
Meyer + Silberberg 198
BERKELEY [USA]
Elegant, understated Modernism with unexpected conceptual twists.
Helle Nebelong 210
GENTOFTE (DENMARK)
Environmentally ordered children's playground design.
Nip Paysage 216
MONTREAL
Delicate and cheeky park and garden design.
Antonio Perazzi 222
MILAN
Sensuous planting design with conceptualist underpinnings.
Plant 224
TORONTO
Rehabilitation of difficult sites through 'experiential design'.
Philippe Rahm 230
PARIS AND LAUSANNE [SWITZERLAND]
Theoretical explorations of the conceptualist landscape through thermal modelling .
RCH Studios 242
LOS ANGELES
Exploratory and interdisciplinary conceptual landscape design .
Janet Rosenberg 250
TORONTO
Versatile conceptualism that works on all scales.
Mario Schjetnan 254
MEXICO CITY
Socially motivated Conceptual-Modernist work informed by history.
Martha Schwartz 256
CAMBRIDGE (USA) ANO LONDON
The pioneer of conceptual1sm. always moving forward.
Vladimir Sitta 274
SURRY HILLS [AUSTRALIA]
Surreal and uncompromising conceptual design.
SLA 278
COPENHAGEN
Conceptual design which aims to capture a balance between nature and urban experience.
Ken Smith 284
NEW YORK
The conceptualist who disavows concepts : starting urban interruptions.
Taylor Cullity Lethlean 290
PRINCES HILL AND ADELAIDE (AUSTRALIA)
Functional, imaginative, distinctively Australian work.
Topotek 1 298
BERLIN
Conceptual landscape design with a light and humorous touch.
Trinidad 314
Theoretical outfit with groundbreaking conceptualist landscape ideas.
Michael Van Valkenburgh 318
NEW YORK AND CAMBRIDGE (USA)
Sensual, experiential landscapes, mediated by raw nature.
Brita von Schoenaich 326
PETERSHAM (UK)
Individualistic designer creating her own tradition.
WES & Partner 330
HAMBURG
Flexible, functional spatial design based on conceptual artistic principles.
West 8 336
ROTTERDAM
Well-established conceptualist outfit working on a large scale.
Directory 344