Contemporary Landscape Architecture: Masterpieces Around the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783037682951)

This compendium presents an international showcase of contemporary
landscape design between global trends, local traditions, climatic
conditions, functional demands, new technologies, economic
circumstances, and individual styles: landscape architecture of today
heading for tomorrow.

A reference work and source of inspiration, this compendium provides an overview of the entire spectrum of this discipline based on projects around the world. Their common denominator is the design of ecologically and socially intact living space. Almost exactly ten years after the publishing of the Atlas of World Landscape Architecture, this new publication takes stock of the developments of the last decade.

Whether around, besides, on top of, or even in buildings, in populated
areas or in the countryside, landscape architecture develops and designs
outdoor spaces for humans as independent creations. It mediates between
nature and architecture and connects the grown and the planned habitat,
balancing function and aesthetics. Against the backdrop of climate
change, the central task today is the conservation of natural resources
and the creation of sustainable, high-quality green spaces.