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Making Postwar
Landscapes Visible - Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II
by Charles A. Birnbaum
This second volume
on the topic, published by The Cultural Landscape Foundation and edited
by Charles A. Birnbaum, builds on the essays published by Spacemaker Press
in 1999.
Making Postwar Landscapes Visible contains seventeen essays by practitioners
of the era including Stuart Dawson, M. Paul Friedberg, Lawrence Halprin
and Grant Jones. Additionally, present-day leaders in landscape architecture
and historic preservation such as Richard Longstreth, Laurie Olin, and
Marc Treib are also represented. Rounding out the publication are papers
from Canada, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Essential reading for those who want to understand post-war landscape
architecture and its ongoing preservation and management.
10 1/2 x 10 1/2
inches; 96 pages; 50 illustrations. ISBN 0-9749632-0-8.
Paperback
with flaps.

  
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