CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The landscape architect shapes the terrain and the space around apre-existing construction or a developing urban or regional project. Hisaim is to offer the most poetic transcription of the language associatedwith a given architectural calculation. These professionals work withanimated and inanimate physical structures which spring from geographicaland social contexts, as well as from technical and economical conditions.Their imagination is the motor behind the creative, competent and playfulsolutions. The fifty projects presented in this book primarily show thedesigns of new spaces and successful restoration of others, which hadpreviously had completely different uses, like a quarry or an industrialcenter. An index with contact information on the respective architects anddesigners is enclosed.