Book Review: BRACKET – [on farming]
With an uncomfortable amount of glee, todays book review will be the introductive prelude to the first of BRACKET almanacs titled [on farming]. BRACKET is an online publication network of open source editors conflating design interests from environment and design.
Inside, BRACKET ” .. highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. The series looks at thematics in our age of globalization that are shaping the built environment in unexpected yet radically significant ways.”
Book Review – People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space
Our society has become accustomed to living in urbane environments with limited resources for interacting with other people and unfortunately, even nature. It can be explained as an almost necessary design requirement, the increasing demand for public open space is continuing to advance within the common language of development and redevelopment projects.
With an intended audience of, but not limited to, professional designers, student designers, city officials, future residents, advocacy groups and even social scientists, People Places establishes a great resource on the subject of urban open space. Editors Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis organized the book into seven chapters; urban plazas, neighborhood parks, miniparks and vest-pocket parks, campus outdoor spaces, outdoor spaces in housing for the elderly, child care outdoor spaces and hospital outdoor spaces.
ASLA Book Review: Illustrated History of Landscape Design
The December issue of Landscape Architecture includes a review of the Illustrated History of Landscape Design by Sullivan and Boults. While the review’s author, Claire Latand of EPTDESIGN points out the varying perspectives that the book takes on period and cultural works, I felt that many of the graphics were unnecessary and convoluted in intended audience.
Check out our full review, posted back in August, here.
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Benjamin Boyd is a student of landscape architecture at the University of Florida. He is the editor for Landscape Invocation and aspires to practice in the DC area upon graduation.
