SHAPING THE POSTWAR LANDSCAPE - NEW PROFILES FROM THE PIONEERS OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECT

Birnbaum, Charles A. & Scott Craver

ISBN 10: 0813941733 / ISBN 13: 9780813941738

Published by University of Virginia Press, 2018

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Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean white cloth boards. Lower corners bumped. Text pages are crisp and clean. Very nice color photo illustrated dust jacket wrinkled at corners. Light soil. Looks great in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SHAPING THE POSTWAR LANDSCAPE - NEW PROFILES FROM THE PIONEERS OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECT
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813941733
• ISBN 13: 9780813941738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles A. Birnbaum, founder, president, and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, is the editor of Shaping the American Landscape (Virginia), among many other volumes. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which in 2017 awarded him the ASLA Medal, its highest honor. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Scott Craver, Ph.D., is the editorial director of the Cultural Landscape Foundation and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.