Overall i enjoyed the book. My biggest complaint was with the graphical "explorations".
I didn't think that the pictorial imagery even if data generated really addressed specific landscape/plane scale design. They were more often simply formulated form. I think they would have been more powerful, if attached or developed more closely to actual site-specific issues.
Also, i noted it was very difficult for me to get. I had to request it through ILL, and it is if am correct out of print (for the wonderful hardcover edition, at least).
For a more formal review see Archinect(s) book review section.
Thoughts on Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape;
Overall i enjoyed the book. My biggest complaint was with the graphical "explorations".
I didn't think that the pictorial imagery even if data generated really addressed specific landscape/plane scale design. They were more often simply formulated form. I think they would have been more powerful, if attached or developed more closely to actual site-specific issues.
Also, i noted it was very difficult for me to get. I had to request it through ILL, and it is if am correct out of print (for the wonderful hardcover edition, at least).
For a more formal review see Archinect(s) book review section.
Anyone else have thoughts?
I think that I want it.
Here is my full review
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What is "ILL?"
Interlibrary Loan which allows one to order books through your library from around the world...
ah - I should've known that. Thanks!
Nobody else?
I have a colleague who owns this book - I'm trying to get it on loan from her - so probably not for another couple weeks.
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