Designed Ecologies: The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3034607385 ISBN 13: 9783034607384

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2012

Synopsis

Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture firm in China today. The vast scale of China and its apparently boundless growth have enabled Yu to test many ideas that are still largely theories in the Western world. His work, increasingly valued and appreciated in Europe and North America, has attained an extremely high and elegant level in both conception and execution. Kongjian Yu is known for his ecological stance, often against the resistance of local authorities. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan. This book explores Yu's work in some ten essays by noted authors and extensively documents some 18 selected projects.

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From the Inside Flap:

Kongjian Yu: China's foremost landscape designer

About the Author:

Internationally acclaimed authors from landscape design and urbanism: John Beardsley, Peter Rowe, Kelly Shannon, Peter Walker, et. al.

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3034607385
• ISBN 13: 9783034607384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Saunders William S.