Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates : reconstructing urban landscapes

摘要: Explores the responses of a world-renowned landscape design firm to difficult demands urban areas Instilling poetics place is goal Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), famous that has created successful public spaces in some country's most challenging sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience aimed, critic Paul Goldberger notes, "make you see everything, and alike, striking intensity." Richly illustrated handsomely designed, this first publication explore wide range MVVA's projects, focusing on firm's trend toward sites requiring complex technological solutions. Leading critics historians look at twelve dating 1992 present, each posing challenge-such contamination, isolation, lengthy approval proceedings. They process through which researches such issues how solutions are embedded final aesthetics spatial structure