Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

by Amidon, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781568985046
• ISBN10: 1568985045
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr

Summary

In the field of landscape architecture, there is no more distinguished voice than Michael Van Valkenburgh, and so it is appropriate that we begin this new Source Books in Landscape Architecture series with his recently completed Allegheny Riverfront Park project for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the city's efforts to restore its downtown district and riverfront, Van Valkenburgh, along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil, developed an ambitious plan to reform the wasted land along the river into an urban refuge. The celebrated collaboration between landscape architect and artists produced a thoughtful, useful, and beautiful park that has successfully renewed the city's core. Source Books in Landscape Architecture, produced in collaboration with Ohio State University, will provide detailed documentation of important new projects.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	4	(2)
Preface	6	(2)
Carol Brown
Data and Chronology	8	(3)
Conversations with Michael Van Valkenburgh	11	(17)
Site Plan	28	(7)
Site	35	(14)
Scissoring	49	(8)
Hypernature	57	(16)
Surface	73	(18)
Conscious Pragmatism	91	(24)
Urban Land	115	(4)
Gallery	119	(29)
Outside the Self	148	(6)
Gary R. Hilderbrand
Criticism	154	(4)
Ethan Carr
Erik de Jong
Credits	158	(1)
Bibliography	159	(1)
Biographies	160