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    Shaping the postwar landscape : new profiles from the pioneers of the American landscape design project / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum, and Scott Craver.

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    • Title:Shaping the postwar landscape : new profiles from the pioneers of the American landscape design project / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum, and Scott Craver.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Birnbaum, Charles A., editor.
      Craver, Scott, editor.
      Cultural Landscape Foundation, sponsoring body.
    • Published/Created:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
      ©2018

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Landscape architects--United States--Biography.
    • Genre/Form: Biographies.
    • Description:xv, 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates ; 25 cm
    • Summary:"'Shaping the Postwar Landscape' is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation's well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago. The present collection features profiles of seventy-two important figures, including landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, horticulturists, and educators. The volume focuses principally on individuals whose careers reached their height during the period between the end of World War II and the American Bicentennial. In that postwar era, landscape architects played an important part in the revitalization of American cities, introducing new typologies for public spaces in the civic realm. Among these were parks that capped freeways, plazas and gardens atop buildings, promenades on revitalized waterfronts, 'vest pocket' parks on tiny urban plots and derelict sites, and pedestrian-friendly downtown malls. Practitioners were also active on the new suburban frontier, their influence extending as far as Levittown and mobile-home communities. They created new outdoor living environments tailored to the California climate, and their work shaped landscaped in the American South, East, West, and Heartland. At a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, 'Shaping the Postwar Landscape' offers a substantial parallel contribution to the field of landscape studies. It belongs not only on the bookshelves of serious students and scholars but in the office of every landscape architect sensitive to significant works of the recent past"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
    • Notes:"A project of The Cultural Landscape Foundation."
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780813941738 hardcover alkaline paper
      0813941733 hardcover alkaline paper
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: PIONEERS
      Dean Abbott
      David E. Arbegast
      Mai Arbegast
      Fred W. Barlow Jr.
      Herbert Bayer
      Richard C. Bell
      Arthur S. Berger and Marie H. Berger
      Alfred Caldwell
      Donald R. Carter
      Robert H. Carter
      Marjorie Sewell Cautley
      Walter L. Chambers
      Thomas Dolliver Church
      John F. Collins
      Lester Albertson Collins
      Angela Danadjieva
      Richard Dattner
      Edward L. Daugherty
      Stuart O. Dawson
      Robert Deering
      Garrett Eckbo
      Lawrence A. Enersen
      M. Paul Friedberg
      Bradford M. Greene
      Richard Haag
      Lawrence Halprin
      Conrad Hamerman
      Asa Hanamoto
      Carl D. Johnson
      Carol R. Johnson
      Philip Johnson
      William J. Johnson
      Johnson, Johnson, and Roy
      Joseph P. Karr
      Koichi Kawana
      Daniel Urban Kiley
      Masao Kinoshita
      Abraham Levitt
      Eugene R. Martini
      Robert E. Marvin
      Ian L. McHarg
      Charles W. Moore
      Richard B. Myrick
      Shinji Nakagawa
      Kenichi Nakano
      Satoru Nishita
      Isamu Noguchi
      Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
      Theodore Osmundson
      Harriet Pattison
      George E. Patton
      Peter G. Rolland
      James C. Rose
      Clarence L. Roy
      Robert N. Royston
      Hideo Sasaki
      Geraldine Knight Scott
      Sidney N. Shurcliff
      John Ormsbee Simonds
      Robert Smithson
      Andre (Andrew) Steiner
      Edward Durell Stone Jr
      Frederic B. Stresau
      Tommy Tomson
      Christopher Tunnard
      Takeo Uesugi
      Richard A. Vignolo
      Peter E. Walker
      Peter Ker Walker
      Jean E. Walton
      Richard K. Webel
      Robert Lewis Zion
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