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Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)

by Liat Margolis (Author), Alexander Robinson (Author)

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Hardcover: 191 pages
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG (1 April 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 3764377003
ISBN-13: 978-3764377007
Product Dimensions: 26.6 x 24.4 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good reference book for both design major students and seasoned professional designers, 22 Mar 2008

By	Gang Chen "LEEDSeries.com, Bestselling Author... (http://www.ArchiteG.com/) - See all my reviews

As the former Director of Material Research at Material ConneXion, Liat Margolis combined her many years of experience in innovative multi-industry materials research with the professional design experience of her co-author and fellow Harvard GSD graduate, Alexander Robinson in "Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture."

"Vertical landscapes also represent a conceptual shift toward a synthesis between landscape and architecture; building facades, for example, can be embedded within emergent, active and responsive skins..." Liat Margolis and Alexander Robinson wrote.

They continued to discuss various living systems and applications demonstrated with real examples, including:

Launch (Multi-tiered Vine Park, Misting Vine Pergola, Wind Adapted Road Canopy Structure, Fire-Escape Ecosystem, Parasitic Vegetal Structure)

Stratify (Mechanically Stabilized Landform, Floating Glass Plain, Multi-Operational Modular Surface, Gradient of Resilience, Surface Inversion)

Fluid (Weaving Porous and Non- porous Surfaces, Inflatable Dam System, Stormwater Garden, Drop Structures for Suburban Stormwater System, Networked Sidewalk Stormwater System, Bio-technical Wave and Erosion Control Structures)

Grooming (Tree Crutches Growing Guide, Artificial Winter for a Bamboo Garden, Saltwater Herbicide System, Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings, Stunted Growth Pattern)

Digestive (Bio-Remediation Park Design, Fluvially Integrated Effluent Wetlands, On-site Sewage Treatment System, Ground Reconstitution Strategy, Strategic Contaminated Soil Placement)

Translate (Pheumatic Body, Power by Wind, the Ground is a Turntable, Weather Informed Park Access System, Fiber Optic Marsh)

Volatile (Responsive Cloud Machine, Computer Animated Rain, Dynamic Thermal Wind Wall, Impression of Rain).

There is a helpful list of products and technologies at the end of the book.

"Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture" has 191 pages and many color interior photos and illustrations. It is a good reference book for both design major students and seasoned professional designers.

Gang Chen, Author of "LEED AP Exam Guide" & "Planting Design Illustrated." LEED AP, AIA

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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic , 27 Nov 2007

By	L. Alexander (London) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

best book which cross over art/architecture and landscape. really good technical specifications and details, good images from both concept to physical finished work (and pictures of people using the space! wow)

its expensive but its seriously worth the money.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good precedent, 10 Feb 2009

By	Dave (UK) - See all my reviews

some really interesting ideas and illustrations that can be applied in many different ways. very good to use as precedent for landscape projects, and generally a good read.

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