Transforming with Water; Proceedings of the 45th World Congress 2008 of the International Federation of Landscape Architects IFLA
Authors: Adriaan Geuze, Ann Spirn, Binyi Liu, Judith van Gelderen, Rotina Mohd Daik, Kongjian Yu, Dihua Li, Zang Lei, Cathy Marshall, Kristi Dykema, Matthew Bradbury, Jorg Sieweke, Brian McGrath, Tim Kennedy, Fu Fan, Zhao Caijun, Sareh Moosavi, Kamyar Abassi, Mehdi Sheibani, Kyung-Jin Zoh, Regina Colligon, and many others
Edited by Wybe Kuitert
Paperback, 17 x 24 cm, 320 pages
Published in cooperation with Techne Press
ISBN: 978-90-8594-021-0
Price: 20,00
In this Proceedings of the 45th IFLA World Congress you will find a wide and unique range of thoughts, ideas, philosophies and experiences on the highly timely, and definitely timeless theme Transforming with Water.
Read about slow sedimentation and erosion, or sudden and dramatic disaster where landscape architects join in with landscape processes moving forward in design, community efforts, or innovative thinking.
There is this challenging project on the Shiraz stream in Iran, linked to an inner city stream in Seoul, Korea, extended with a Korean contribution on the same stream and its follow-up in Seoul. Compare this with solutions offered for urban waterfronts along the Rhine, or in other historic water cities in Europe; or there is the landscape wisdom of ancient generations, found in the Australian desert, in old Chinese city planning, and irrigation systems of the arid zones of Argentina and Australia.
Having read, reviewed, and edited many papers by the dozen for this book, one becomes increasingly fascinated by the variety in meanings that landscape architecture has in the societies of various countries.
