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Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Margie Ruddick
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Description for Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Paperback. Can nature, in all its unruly wildness, be an integral part of creative landscape design? In this book, the author defines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, beauty, and meaning to landscapes: Reinvention, Restoration, Conservation, Regeneration, and Expression. Num Pages: 248 pages, full colour, 200 photos, 100 figures. BIC Classification: AMCR; AMV; RNU; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This book offers a revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design's most innovative practitioners. Can nature, in all its unruly wildness, be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick stretches the boundaries of landscape design, offering readers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach to sustainable landscapes, one that looks beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Wild by Design defines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, ... Read more
This book offers a revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design's most innovative practitioners. Can nature, in all its unruly wildness, be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick stretches the boundaries of landscape design, offering readers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach to sustainable landscapes, one that looks beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Wild by Design defines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Island Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610915984
SKU
V9781610915984
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Margie Ruddick
For over twenty years, Margie Ruddick has been recognised for her pioneering work in landscape design. Winner of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in landscape architecture, Ruddick has crafted an innovative approach to design that brings together aspects of the landscape that seem to contrast, wild and urban, formally ordered and free, with attention to the messy margins where ... Read more
Reviews for Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Great images, good story. This is a book every architect should read.
Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP [one of] spring's most enticing design books
New York Magazine Richly illustrated
San Francisco Book Review Margie Ruddick artfully explores whether nature, in all its unruly wildness, can be an integral part of design.
DuJour Spaces designed to be ... Read more
Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP [one of] spring's most enticing design books
New York Magazine Richly illustrated
San Francisco Book Review Margie Ruddick artfully explores whether nature, in all its unruly wildness, can be an integral part of design.
DuJour Spaces designed to be ... Read more