New Landscape Architecture - Beau Livre

Landscape architecture is now a broad range of very different presentations of free space : sometimes strict, sometimes playfut, powerful or reserved, provocative or almost unnoticeable. It comprises spacious natural and cultural landscapes, peaceful, almost intimate inner courtyards, outdoor installations of buildings where people can live and work, town squares and parks. New Landscape Architecture reflects the aesthetic and ecological effects of landscape architecture upon public spaces.
The publication provides an overview of eighty ways of structuring free spaces, such as the outside area of the Allianz Arena in Munich, the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the State Horticultural Show 2006 in Wernigerode and the redesigned Lake basin in Zurich. These projects are made comprehensible by means of texts, photographs, plans and drawings. The one thing they have in common is that free spaces are created and structured as living spaces for people.