Unearthed : the
landscapes of Hargreaves Associates / Karen M'Closkey.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia : 2013
xii, 235 p. : il.
Colección: Penn
Studies in Landscape Architecture
ISBN 9780812244809
Sbc Aprendizaje A-712HARGREAVES UNE
The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally
renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to
London's 2012 Olympic Park. Founded by George Hargreaves in 1983, this team of
designers has transformed numerous abandoned sites into topographically and
functionally diverse landscapes. Hargreaves Associates' body of work reflects
the socioeconomic and legislative changes that have impacted landscape
architecture over the past three decades, particularly the availability of
former industrial sites and their subsequent redevelopment into parks. The
firm's longstanding interest in such projects brings it into frequent contact
with the communities and local authorities who use and live in these built
environments, which tend to be contested grounds owing to the conflicting claims
of the populations and municipalities that use and manage them. As microcosms
of contemporary political, social, and economic terrains, these designed spaces
signify larger issues in urban redevelopment and landscape design.
The first scholarly examination of the firm's philosophy and body of
work, “Unearthed” uses Hargreaves Associates' portfolio to illustrate the key
challenges and opportunities of designing today's public spaces. Illustrated with more than one
hundred and fifty color and black-and-white images, this study explores the
methods behind canonical Hargreaves Associates sites, such as San Francisco's
Crissy Field, Sydney Olympic Park, and the Louisville Waterfront Park.
M'Closkey outlines how Hargreaves and his longtime associate Mary Margaret Jones
approach the design of public places—conceptually, materially, and formally—on
sites that require significant remaking in order to support a greater range of
ecological and social needs.
Karen M'Closkey
teaches landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She is
a cofounder of PEG office of landscape + architecture, an award-winning design
and research practice based in Philadelphia.
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