TY - GEN AU - Richardson, Tim TI - Avant gardeners : 50 visionaries of the contemporary landscape SN - 9780500288269 U1 - 712 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Thames and Hudson KW - Landscape architects KW - Landscape architecture KW - Landscape design N1 - 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 ER -