Weathering and Durability in Landscape

Weatering and Durability in Landscape Architecture provides authoritative guidelines to weathering, durability, and physical changes in the designed landscape over time. * Provides innovative weathering strategies illustrated with case studies. * Includes information on completed landscapes with data and commentary on maintenance and durability. * Provides the personal weathering and durability strategies of leading experts.

NIALL KIRKWOOD, ASLA, is Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Design School.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii

PART ONE Design for Weathering and Durability

1

(58)

CHAPTER 1 TIME AND THE BUILT LANDSCAPE

3

(22)

CHAPTER 2 ASPECTS OF PERMANENCE

25

(16)

CHAPTER 3 DESIGN APPROACHES

41

(18)

PART TWO Landscape Architectural Design Case Studies

59

(218)

CHAPTER 4 CASE STUDIES

61

(216)

Case Study A Expiration Date

64

(16)

Vintondale Colliery Park Reclamation, Vintondale, Pennsylvania

Julie Bargmann

Case Study B Constructing Memory

80

(16)

A Memorial to Rosie the Riveter, Richmond, California

Cheryl Barton

Case Study C The Persistence of Spatial Structure

96

(16)

Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas

Edward L. Blake, Jr.

Case Study D The Readjusted Scales of Duration

112

(21)

A Private Summer Retreat, Western Maine

Michael Blier

Case Study E Working Materials

133

(21)

Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana

Eric Fulford and Ann Reed

Case Study F Dimensions of Process and Change

154

(20)

Crissy Field: A Tidal Marsh Restoration, San Francisco, California

Mary Margaret Jones

Case Study G Aesthetics of Cultural Weathering

174

(18)

Moyland Elementary School Playground, Hartford, Connecticut; Courtyard and Meditation Labyrinth, Chester, Connecticut

Mikyoung Kim

Case Study H Urban Legacies

192

(19)

Cook + Phillip Park, Sydney, Australia

Elizabeth Mossop

Case Study I Evolving Economies

211

(15)

Casa Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico

Margie Ruddick

Case Study J Maturing Practices

226

(17)

Advantica Plaza and Park, Spartanburg, South Carolina

Peter Lindsay Schaudt

Case Study K Perpetual Material

243

(17)

Aluminum Garden, New York, New York

Ken Smith

Case Study L Compressed

260

(17)

"Compressed": A Temporary Landscape Installation, Cazenovia, New York

H. Keith Wagner

PART THREE Afterword

277

(10)

CHAPTER 5 ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

279

(8)

Bibliography and Further Reading

287

(4)

Index

291

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Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture Fundamentals, Practices, and Case Studies

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