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The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture

Heike Rahmann, Jillian Walliss, Jillian Walliss (ed.), Heike Rahmann (ed.)

Jovis Verlag | Published : 2020

Abstract

The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary landscape architecture in Asia, making it one of the first books to be devoted to the subject in such detail. Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann bring established designers, authors and thinkers together with those of the new generation and in this way explore Asian perspectives on urbanism, participation and design thinking - fields that are traditionally dominated by North American and European ways of thinking. The book is divided into the three subject areas of continuum, disturbance and speed: characteristics that shape Asian landscape architecture in equal measure. Each chapter combines theoreti..

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