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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465597203321

Autore

Loidl Hans

Titolo

Opening spaces : design as landscape architecture / / Hans Loidl, Stefan Bernard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-03821-846-4

3-03821-223-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Classificazione

ZC 53100

Disciplina

712

Soggetti

Architecture

Landscape architecture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Talking about design - a few introductory remarks -- "In the form of open space" -- [1] Form and forming -- [2] Designing and design -- [3] Space - place - path -- 3.1 Creating space ("space") -- 3.2 Creating focal points ("place") -- 3.3 Movement and access ("path") -- [4] Design qualities -- 4.1 Fundamentals of good design -- 4.2 Characteristics of good design -- 4.3 Repetition as a tool -- Literature -- Authors

Sommario/riassunto

"What does the landscape architect actually do as a design?" The authors investigate this seemingly simple question. What resources are available for designing open spaces? What part is played by conditions deriving from nature? How are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used? Drawing on practical and theoretical experience, this introduction, often used as a textbook, reveals the central components of design and the intellectual paths followed in the design process."The book is not so much for reading but for doing. It plays with shapes, imagining how people feel in these shapes and seeing how shapes create a different experience of landscape. Vegetation can make the relief of a hill clearer, less clear, indistinct or hidden. The authors show



this by sketches illustrating the text ... As an example of the way Loidl and Bernard set their readers thinking for themselves, I "e what they regard as good design: 'The paradox of a good design solution: more uniformity needs more variety.'Food for thought. Or read Open(ing) Spaces." (Martin Woestenburg in 'scape, 2006)