Groundwork by Diana Balmori
Over the past ten years a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have been undertaking groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture. Authors Diana Balmori and Joel Sanders bring together a collection of inventive landscape works by cutting-edge designers.
"With Groundwork, [architect Joel Sanders] and the landscape architect Diana Balmori accomplish on paper what they’d like other designers to attempt in the world: a demonstration of the seamless unity of nature and culture that is demanded in an age of increasing environmental threatThe authors believe that green materials and technologies provide a common medium for interdisciplinary design approaches, just as glass and steel defined the inside/outside continuity of modernism. Much of the book is made up of their examples: from a Parisian house buried among 1,200 hydroponic ferns to a sculpture park built on a former brownfield along Seattle’s waterfront to the authors’ own design for an equestrian facility that morphs into a public park, which they proposed for New York’s 2012 Olympics bid." —Julie Lasky, Designers & Books
Diana Balmori (1932-2016) was a landscape and urban designer who founded Balmori Associates in 1990. Joel Sanders is principal of Joel Sanders Architect and teaches at Yale University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781580933131 |
| ISBN 10 | 1580933130 |
| Title | Groundwork |
| Author | Diana Balmori |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The Monacelli Press |
| Year published | 2011-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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