Digital landscape architecture now [Book] / Nadia Amoroso ; foreword by George Hargreaves.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Ballistic architecture -- Balmori -- Bradley Cantrell -- EcoLogicStudio -- Emergent -- Fletcher Studio -- Freise Brothers -- Groundlab -- GT2P -- Paulo Guerreiro -- Kathryn Gustafson -- Zaha Hadid -- Hargreaves Associates -- Hood Design -- Andrés Jaque Arquitectos -- Laboratory for Visionary Architecture -- LAND -- Land-I Architecture -- Landworks Studio -- Lateral Office -- Metagardens -- Meyer & Silberberg -- MLZ Design -- MVRDV -- Nox -- O2 Planning & Design -- Philip Paar, Jörg Rekittke -- Paisajes Emergentes -- PEG Office of Landscape & Architecture -- PYO Arquitectos -- R&Sie(n) -- Chris Speed -- StossLU - -TerreformONE -- Topotek1 -- Turenscape -- Urbanarbolismo -- VisionDivision -- West 8 -- Afterword.

Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning, and the environment, landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture. Typically, as little as three percent of a project’s construction budget is allocated to the space that surrounds a building, but that is changing. A greater desire to blend buildings into their contexts, ecological considerations, legislation, and new definitions of “scaping” have opened up exciting possibilities. Coinciding with heightened social sensitivities, advances in material application, data-driven mapping techniques, and digital technologies and construction methods, landscape designers are producing a new wave of work around the world, reshaping gardens, public squares, leisure areas, and industrial parks. Among the practices included in this survey are designers who have bridged modernism with newer forms (Emergent, West 8); architects whose work fuses with the earth’s contours (Zaha Hadid, MVRDV); and a generation of designers only just emerging from universities. Nadia Amoroso is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto and has lectured at Harvard and Cornell universities. c. 700 color illustrations.