New Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture runs the gamut of very different presentations of free spaces: sometimes strict, sometimes playful, powerful or reserved, provocative or almost unnoticeable. It comprises spacious natural and cultural landscapes, peaceful, almost intimate inner courtyards, town squares and parks, and installations outside buildings where people live and work. New Landscape Architecture reflects on the aesthetic and ecological effects of landscape architecture on public spaces. The publication provides an overview of more than one hundred ways of structuring free spaces from the German speaking countries, such as the outdoor installations of the Allianz Arena in Munich, the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Landesgartenschau 2006 (2006 State Horticulture Show) in Wernigerode and the redesigned lake basin in Zurich. Detailed text, photographs, plans, and drawings provide insights into each project. The one thing all these projects have in common is that they create and structure free spaces as spaces for people to live in.