The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design

Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, and a historian and critic of landscape and architecture who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. Recent books include Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy (co-editor, 2016); Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán (2017); The Landscapes of Georges Descombes: Doing Almost Nothing (2019); and Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East: Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi (2020).

Laurie Olin, Professor of Practice Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is a landscape architect, urban designer, and prolific author, who has practiced for half a century in the United States and abroad. Among his many signature projects, are the redesign of Bryant Park in New York City, the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, DC, and more recently, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and the new Apple campus in Cupertino. In addition to numerous articles and critical essays, he is also the author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes and Please Be Seated.

Over six decades of practice Peter Walker has designed hundreds of landscapes, chaired the landscape architecture departments at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, lectured widely, written, and served as advisor to numerous public agencies. The scope of his concerns ranges from the small garden to the planning of cities―with a particular emphasis on corporate headquarters, plazas, cultural gardens, academic campuses, and urban-regeneration projects. Recepient of the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Medal for lifetime achievement in landscape architecture, he initiated the founding of the CEO Roundtable and the journal LandForum.

Thorbjörn Andersson studied landscape architecture in Sweden and the United States and has been in active practice since 1981. He is best known for his designs of urban public spaces, a selection of which were published in Platser/Places (2003) and Nature/Site/Restraint (2019). Recent projects include the Physic Garden at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland; the Umeå University Campus Park; and the Hyllie Plaza, Malmö. Andersson was also a founding editor of the journal Utblick Landskap and has served as professor of landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna.