Peter Walker and Partners - Landscape Architecture Defining the Craft

Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of most beautiful and iconic works of landscape architecture in the world.

This book features work since 1997 that brilliantly showcases the firm’s range, including sixteen built projects in Europe, Asia and the United States – parks, corporate headquarters, foundations, museums and urban plazas; seven works in progress, including the American Embassy in Beijing and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City; and ten site planning and urban-design projects, among them millennium parklands in Sydney, Australia and Novartis Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

The book opens with a short essay about the organization and philosophy of the office, the partners and associates, and the particular way that PWP practises the craft of landscape architecture. It concludes with four competitions, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

About the Author

Peter Walker is a landscape architect with forty years of experience in practice and teaching. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and of the Institute for Urban Design, and recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ Honour Award, he writes and lectures widely on landscape design. Jane Brown Gillette has served as associate editor of Historic Preservation magazine, features editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, and executive editor of Land Forum magazine and Spacemaker Press. She has also published book reviews, critical essays and short stories in a variety of journals.