Overview
- Presenting the first published book of Cooper Hewitt National Design Award winner, Margie Ruddick
- Showcases the high-profile landscape designer’s design aesthetic with hundreds of four-color photographs
- Offers a flexible, customizable approach to creating sustainable landscapes as a welcome alternative to the checklist-heavy LEED rating system
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About this book
Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Instead, she offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the entrenched belief that natural processes cannot complement high-level landscape design.
Wild by Design defines and explains the five fundamental strategies Ruddick employs, often in combination, to give life, beauty, and meaning to landscapes: Reinvention, Restoration, Conservation, Regeneration, and Expression. Drawing on her own projects—from New York City’s Queens Plaza, formerly a concrete jungle of traffic, to a desertscape backyard in Baja, California, to the Living Water Park in Chengdu, China—she offers guidance on creating beautiful, healthy landscapes that successfully reconnect people with larger natural systems.
A revealing look into the approach of one of sustainable landscape design’s most innovative practitioners, Wild by Design stretches the boundaries of landscape design, offering readers a set of broader, more flexible strategies and practical examples that allow for the unexpected exuberance of nature to be a welcome part of our gardens, parks, backyards, and cities.
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Book Title: Wild By Design
Book Subtitle: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Authors: Margie Ruddick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-599-1
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Author 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-599-1Published: 06 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 243
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Cities, Countries, Regions, Interaction Design