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Living Systems:
Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture

by Liat Margolis; Alexander Robinson

This fascinating book explores the leading edges of landscape architecture, looking at new technologies and strategies for taming (and untaming) outdoor spaces.

Margolis and Robinson divide the book into seven strategies: launch, stratify, fluid, grooming, digestive, translate, and volatile. Each section presents detailed case studies. Vertical growth and multi-story gardens fill the "launch" chapter; the "stratify" section offers three-dimensional, sculptural spaces. Bioswales and other stormwater systems illustrate the "fluid" section. The authors reimagine "grooming" to include design and construction in addition to maintenance, and examine strategies for brownfield decontamination in the "digestive" section. "Translate" refers to the merger of landscape and communication, and "volatile" to technological landscapes that change with seasons and times.

The end of the book offers an encyclopedia of products and technologies, with links to the seven sections. Over all, the book presents a wealth of ideas and the means to achieve them.

Retail price: $89.95
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