composing landscapes - analysis, typology and experiments for design

This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. with more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involved in composing landscapes (e.g., reduction, decomposition, fragmentation, montage, and collage). topics range from architectonic details to gardens all the way to cityscapes and cultivated areas, including new york’s central park, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century italian gardens, and the seine landscapes in paris. an appendix containing several extensive indices, including an index of landscape-architectural terms, rounds out the usefulness of the book as a sound and solid manual of design.