Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design)
Average Rating: out of 10 Reviews
Price: $59.95
Sale: $33.19
Manufacturer: Wiley
EAN (European Article Number): 9780471114604
Number of Items: 1
Binding: Paperback
Author: Ian L. McHarg
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
Publication Date: 1995-02-06
Reading Level: 208
Description: With a distinct emphasis on human cooperation and biological partnership in design, the author explores the relationship between the built environment and nature to illustrate how both can be used to their full potential without being detrimental or destructive to each other. Provides a combination of scientific insight and constructive design, and shows how to employ what nature offers to the fullest extent without imposing limitations or design constraints to create a balanced and self-renewing environment.
Details: My husband is a landscape designer and architect. So, he loves this stuff! I bought it for him as one of his birthday gifts. He has been wanting something of high quality and loves McHarg. I would recommend this book. We keep it on the coffee table because the pictures are wonderful and the design shows through. My husband and I love it!
Review Summary: Too Long and Overpriced
Date: 2007-08-23
Details: As a former colleague of McHarg's at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1960's, and currently working in a planned community he designed (The Woodlands, TX), I decided to buy this book to try to understand the strange idiosyncracies of The Woodlands, TX.
The book is very wordy, but it is well illustrated. McHarg successfully blended community design with natural boundary conditions (watershed management, geology, forestry, slope properties, etc) with the case histories he presented (some of which I remember when serving on an invited basis on jury's in McHarg's academic program). The book's strength is his advocacy of melding human planning needs with nature's boundary conditions.
BUT, does it really work? Only at the expense of the time of people working and living in such a planned community. The inconvenient practices that go with such a planned community require a lot of adjustment that asks a bit much of people who work in such places but don't live there.
But it works fine for the affluent and the unhurried who can afford it.
Review Summary: la correcta dimension de la sostenibilidad
Date: 2007-06-15
Details: No has estudiado arquitectura si este libro no ha caido en tus manos. Sin Ian Mcharg la arquitectura sostenible no seria posible. Por lo menos la arquitectura sostenible pensada a escala regional."
Review Summary: not as good as i expected
Date: 2003-11-02
Details: this highly recommended book started out as a compelling read, but became something i had to force myself to finish. it seems to be a series of lectures strung together, which may have been interesting as lectures, but is not cohesive enough to be a book. the good information is lost amidst the rambling style.
Review Summary: A must read for Landscape Architects
Date: 2002-08-08
Details: Anyone studying environmental planning or LA should read this book.
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