A Philosophy of Landscape Construction : The Vision of Built Landscapes (Paperback)

Preface; Why Now; What this Book Is Based On; How to Use this Book in Learning Landscape Construction; What this Book Is; Notes; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Call of Values; Built Landscapes and Landscape Construction; Values Waiting Within; The Yearning for Values in Construction Design; Your Aspiration and Your Development; Notes; Chapter 2. Between Structure and Vision; Pavement; Wall; Span; Structures in Interaction with Values; Notes; Chapter 3. Building toward People; Floors for Moving; Seats for Staying; Social orientation; Bodily comfort; Covers for Sheltering; The Importance of Durability; People in Built Landscapes; Notes; Chapter 4. Building toward Living Things; Living Soil; Spanning Structures; Inert Subgrade Soil; Permeable Structures; Rootable Structures; What is at stake; Structural soil; Return to spanning structures; Living Things around Structures; Living Things in Built Landscapes; Notes; Chapter 5. Building toward Meaning; Compositional Articulation; Functional Articulation; Cultural Articulation; Ecological Articulation; Meaning in Built Landscapes; Notes; Chapter 6. Building toward Thrift; Material Resources; Newly made materials; Previously made structures and materials; Financial Resources; Investment with exclusively financial values; Investment with multiple values; The Importance of Complete Investigation; Thrift in Built Landscapes; Notes; Chapter 7. The Open Way; A Drainage Outlet; Native in Material and Ecology; Evolution of Structures with Realization of Uses and Values; Pursuit of Values in the Act of Design; Notes; Chapter 8. Between Stone and Sky; Core Values; Specific Types of Values; Value Interactions and Priorities; Why Pause Now; Ideals: The Sky in the Stone; Notes