Envisioning Landscapes
the transformative environments of ojb
$64.00
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2021
Summary
Envisioning Landscapes: The Transformative Power of OJB
This debut monograph uncovers the philosophy that guides the visionary landscape architecture firm OJB and reveals the transformative power of landscape through a selection of case studies drawn from the firm’s thirty-year history.
Founded in 1989 by landscape architect James Burnett, OJB–the Office of James Burnett–has since grown to nearly one hundred professionals working across five offices and has established itsel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580935678 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580935672 |
| Author: | Peter Walker, Christopher Hawthorne, OJB Landscape Architecture |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.28kg |
| Dimensions: | 223mm x 237mm x 27mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Winner of the 2020 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture
Winner of the 2020 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture 2020 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award Honorable Mention
About The Author
Peter Walker
OJB Landscape Architecture challenges the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture, emphasizing placemaking as a mechanism for healing, gathering, and celebration. OJB is the recipient of more than ninety state and national design awards, including several national awards for the creation of urban parks that return civic engagement to the forefront of cities.
Christopher Hawthorne is Los Angeles’s first Chief Design Officer. Prior to that, he was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to 2018, the architecture critic for Slate, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of The Green House- New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.
Peter Walker is an internationally recognized landscape architect and founder of PWP Landscape Architecture. Over five decades, Walker has designed parks, gardens, corporate headquarters, urban landscapes, campuses, museums, and memorials around the world. Among his significant projects are the National 9⁄11 Memorial in New York, the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD, and the Barangaroo waterfront renewal project in Sydney, Australia, which won an American Architecture Prize for Landscape Design of the Year.
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