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Michael Van Valkenburgh/Allegheny Riverfront Park:
Source Books in Landscape Architecture
by Jane Amidon
Princeton Architectural Press, April 2005
In the field of landscape architecture, there is no more distinguished
voice than Michael Van Valkenburgh, and so it is appropriate that
we begin this new Source Books in Landscape Architecture series
with his recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project
for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to
restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh,
along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed
an ambitious plan to reform the wasted land along the river into
an urban refuge. The celebrated collaboration between landscape
architect and artists produced a thoughtful, useful, and beautiful
park that has successfully renewed the city's core.
Source Books in Landscape Architecture, produced in collaboration
with Ohio State University, will provide detailed documentation
of important new projects.
Jane Amidon is a designer and writer currently teaching at the
Knowlton School of Architecture.
Design with the Land:
The Landscape Architecture of Michael van Valkenburgh
edited by Brooke Hodge
Princeton Architectural Press/Harvard Graduate School of Design,
1994
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Design with the Land presents selected projects, both public
and private, by contemporary landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh.
With rare and subtle eloquence, Van Valkenburgh combines distinctive
artistic invention with a profound understanding of regional flora,
seasonal fluctuations, and the cultural context of a site. His
work contrasts clear, simple, architectural land forms with an
almost romantic application of materials. Artful oppositions—deliberate
and whimsical, modern and ancient, architectonic and natural,
spare and rich—are evident in his projects, from the Pucker
Garden in Brookline, Massachusetts, to his project for the redesign
of the Tuilleries Garden in Paris. Other projects in this monograph
include the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Extension at the Walker
Art Center, the entry landscape for General Mills Corporate Garden,
the HO-AM Art Museum and sculpture garden in Seoul, Korea, and
courtyard landscapes for both the New School for Social Research
in New York City and a corporate client in Paris, as well as numerous
private gardens from Los Angeles to Cape Cod. Beautifully illustrated
in both color and black-and-white, Design with the Land is an
elegant and thoughtful introduction to Van Valkenburgh's work,
presented through models, drawings, and photographs of the gardens
themselves, and distinctive text.
Published with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
CONTENTS
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| PREFACE |
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With Time in Mind: the Modern
Landscapes of Michael Van Valkenburgh
Peter G. Rowe |
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Michael Van Valkenburgh: a Client's Perspective
Will Miller |
| ESSAYS |
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Time, Material, and Event: the Work of Michael
Van Valkenburgh
James Corner |
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Private Visions: the Gardens of Michael
Van Valkenburgh
Paula Deitz |
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In the Works: Public and Corporate Designs
John Beardley |
| PROJECTS |
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With selected writings by Mildred Friedman |
| CREDITS |
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Acknowledgments
Contributors
Selected Bibliography |
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