Big Book of Asian Landscape Architecture assembles over 80 contemporary design projects to make the case that landscape architecture across Asia constitutes a distinct and globally significant body of practice — one long underrepresented in a field shaped by North American and European orthodoxies.
About This Book
This volume arrives as one of the first comprehensive surveys of contemporary landscape architecture practice across Asia, and its scope is genuinely ambitious. Editors Heike Rahmann and Jillian Wallis bring together established designers, theorists, and emerging voices to examine what it means to conceive, negotiate, and build space with an Asian sensibility — across wildly varied urban, cultural, and ecological contexts. The result is not a regional footnote to Western discourse but a challenge to it. For practitioners and students working in landscape urbanism, spatial theory, or cross-cultural design, this is a necessary corrective and a rich project resource.
Key Features
- 288 pages of project documentation, critical essays, and 200 illustrations spanning contemporary Asian landscape practice
- Edited by Heike Rahmann and Jillian Wallis
- Over 80 design projects featured across the region
- Published by Jovis
What You'll Discover
- How established and emerging Asian designers articulate a design sensibility distinct from Euro-American landscape conventions
- The intersection of urbanism, cultural identity, and spatial practice across diverse Asian contexts
- What it means to do business and build a practice within Asia's varied professional and regulatory landscapes
- Fresh frameworks for thinking about landscape architecture that expand — and complicate — the field's dominant reference points
About the Author
Heike Rahmann and Jillian Wallis are the editors of this volume, bringing together designers and thinkers from both established and emerging generations of Asian landscape practice. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783868596120
- Publisher: Jovis
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, and spatial theorists seeking grounded insight into contemporary Asian practice — and for anyone ready to look beyond Western-centric design discourse.