TERRITORIES: From Landscape to City

Description

Landscape architecture is a discipline that can bring order to the chaos of contemporary urbanism. It can also give shape and structure to the dispersed city, offering solid answers wherever the debate over the cityterritory and urban sprawl – with good reason – looks set to monopolize the attention of urbanists and architects for a long time to come. As yet, there are very few landscape architecture agencies in Europe that are both deeply involved in the territory and committed to a clear method of work. This book examines the international projects of Agence Ter in urban territories, demonstrating the three fundamental postulates embodied in the work of partners Henri Bava, Michel Hoessler and Olivier Philippe. These postulates consist of comprehending the landscape’s multiple horizons, developing plans for urban insertion within territories in motion, and creating open source systems.

CONTENTS

• Parc des Cormailles, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
• Cayenne Island, French Guyana, France
• The fl oating garden at Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom
• The excavated terrace at the Louis Jeantet
• Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
• The Floorworks Garden, Geneva, Switzerland
• König Heinrich Square, Duisburg, Germany
• Aqua Magica Park, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
• Les Halles, Paris, France
• Verdon beach, Martigues, France
• Parc du Trapèze, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
• The roof garden at the Vache Noire shopping center, Arcueil, France
• Cristina Enea Park, San Sebastián, Spain
• Public spaces at the Zollverein mine, Essen, Germany
• Milla Digital Park, Saragossa, Spain
• The inhabited woodlands of Euralille 2, Lille, France
• Royal Canal Linear Park, Dublin, Ireland
• The major infrastructures of northeast Paris, France
• The new quarter at Anfa, Casablanca, Morocco
• Ecological quarter, Île Saint-Denis, France
• The Prés d’Arènes quarter, Montpellier, France
• An urban archipelago, Bahrain
• The Green Metropolis, Aix-la-Chapelle – Limburg, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium
• Landscape Vectors of Greater Paris, France

200 pages, color & b&w ills / 24,5 x 30,5 cm / English