Description Shaping the Postwar Landscape is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation\'s well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago.
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He is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which in 2017 awarded him the ASLA Medal, its highest honor.
Birnbaum, founder, president, and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, is the editor of Shaping the American Landscape (Virginia), among many other volumes.
About the author Charles A.
It belongs not only on the bookshelves of serious students and scholars but in the office of every Landscape architect sensitive to significant works of the recent past.
At a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, Shaping the Postwar Landscape offers a substantial parallel contribution to the field of Landscape studies.
They created new outdoor living environments tailored to the California climate, and their work shaped landscaped in the American South, East, West, and Heartland.
Practitioners were also active on the new suburban frontier, their influence extending as far as Levittown and mobile-home communities.
Among these were parks that capped freeways, plazas and gardens atop buildings, promenades on revitalized waterfronts, "vest pocket" parks on tiny urban plots and derelict sites, and pedestrian-friendly downtown malls.
In that Postwar era, Landscape architects played an important part in the revitalization of American cities, introducing new typologies for public spaces in the civic realm.
The volume focuses principally on individuals whose careers reached their height during the period between the end of World War II and the American Bicentennial.
The present collection features Profiles of seventy-two important figures, including Landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, horticulturists, and educators.
Description Shaping the Postwar Landscape is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation\'s well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago
