Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture

Weatering and Durability in Landscape Architecture provides authoritative guidelines to weathering, durability, and physical changes in the designed landscape over time.
* Provides innovative weathering strategies illustrated with case studies.
* Includes information on completed landscapes with data and commentary on maintenance and durability.
* Provides the personal weathering and durability strategies of leading experts.

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Part One Design for Weathering and Durability 1

Chapter 1 Time and the Built Landscape 3

Chapter 2 Aspects of Permanence 25

Chapter 3 Design Approaches 41

Part Two Landscape Architectural Design Case Studies 59

Chapter 4 Case Studies 61

Case Study A Expiration Date 64
Vintondale Colliery Park Reclamation, Vintondale, Pennsylvania
Julie Bargmann

Case Study B Constructing Memory 80
A Memorial to Rosie the Riveter, Richmond, California
yl Barton

Case Study C The Persistence of Spatial Structure 96
Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas
Edward L. Blake, Jr.

Case Study D The Readjusted Scales of Duration 112
A Private Summer Retreat, Western Maine
Michael Blier

Case Study E Working Materials 133
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana
Eric Fulford and Ann Reed

Case Study F Dimensions of Process and Change 154
Crissy Field: A Tidal Marsh Restoration, San Francisco, California
Mary Margaret Jones

Case Study G Aesthetics of Cultural Weathering 174
Moyland Elementary School Playground, Hartford, Connecticut; Courtyard and Meditation Labyrinth, Chester, Connecticut
Mikyoung Kim

Case Study H Urban Legacies 192
Cook + Phillip Park, Sydney, Australia
Elizabeth Mossop

Case Study I Evolving Economies 211
Casa Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
Margie Ruddick

Case Study J Maturing Practices 226

Advantica Plaza and Park, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Peter Lindsay Schaudt

Case Study K Perpetual Material 243
Aluminum Garden, New York, New York
Ken Smith

Case Study L Compressed 260
“Compressed”: A Temporary Landscape Installation, Cazenovia, New York
H. Keith Wagner

Part Three Afterword 277

Chapter 5 Achievements and Challenges 279

Bibliography and Further Reading 287

Index 291

NIALL KIRKWOOD, ASLA, is Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Design School. An in-depth guide to building landscape designs that withstand the test of time

Even the most innovative and dynamic design projects are susceptible to weathering. The first book of its kind to address this important yet long-neglected design consideration, Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture discusses how landscape materials should be selected, shaped, and implemented to help built landscapes change and evolve over the years, rather than deteriorate.

Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture explores a variety of landscape design approaches and site strategies practiced in the industry today, with a focused examination of the link between the conception and implementation of landscape ideas and a range of seen and unforeseen forces that will shape the built landscape over time. Landscape architects and designers can discover how to combat the devastating consequences of deterioration through:
* Innovative weathering strategies incorporated into the traditional design process
* Data and commentary on the maintenance and durability of completed landscapes
* Weathering and durability strategies from leading landscape architects
* Dozens of case studies supporting examined techniques
* More than 125 informative graphics

For landscape architects, architects, landscape contractors, urban designers, and environmental designers, Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture is an essential volume of proven techniques for creating lasting landscape designs.