1st Edition

Farmscape The Design of Productive Landscapes

By Phoebe Lickwar, Roxi Thoren Copyright 2020
290 Pages 174 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 174 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 174 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Agricultural processes, technologies, and cycles have long shaped landscape architectural projects, from the... Read more

Cultivating the field; Case studies; Woburn Farm; Middleton Place; Montpelier; Moraine Farm; Merchiston Farm; Welwyn Garden City; Ziebigk Siedlung; Nærum Allotment Gardens; Village Homes; Winslow Farms Conservancy; Shenyang Architectural University; Green Gulch Farm Zen Center; Babylonstoren; Overlook Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm; Composition, meaning, and practice: a framework for designing agriculture; Operationalizing the farmscape; Index

Biography

Phoebe Lickwar is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. She is founding principal of Forge Landscape Architecture, an award-winning critical design practice based in Austin.

Roxi Thoren is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon.  She studies the integration of second nature, productive landscapes, in landscape architectural design through research and design projects around agriculture, forestry, and power.