Sh*tscapes: 100 Mistakes in Landscape Architecture turns the conventions of design education inside out, cataloguing a hundred documented failures in the design, construction, and maintenance of urban landscapes — and what they actually teach us.
About This Book
Most landscape architecture publications present the discipline at its most aspirational: resolved projects, ideal conditions, best-practice outcomes. Sh*tscapes takes the opposite position. Guculak and Bourel have assembled a compendium of one hundred failures drawn from the public realm — projects where design intent, construction process, or maintenance regimes broke down in instructive ways. Rather than cataloguing dysfunction for its own sake, the book pairs each failure with practical, direct solutions. The result is a rare resource for practitioners and students alike: a frank interrogation of how urban landscape design goes wrong, and a toolkit for anticipating, preventing, or accepting the inevitable.
Key Features
- 104 pages documenting one hundred failures across design, construction, and maintenance processes in urban landscape architecture
- Authors: Vladimir Guculak & Paul Bourel
- Published by Jovis, ISBN: 9783986120764
What You'll Discover
- How failures in the public realm are categorised across design intent, construction execution, and ongoing maintenance — three distinct failure modes with distinct remedies
- Practical, project-applicable solutions paired directly with each documented mistake, bridging critique and professional practice
- A methodology for predicting future failure scenarios before they are built into a landscape
- The case for accepting certain failures as an inherent condition of urban landscape design, rather than treating every outcome as fully controllable
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 104
- Dimensions: 20 x 13 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783986120764
- Publisher: Jovis
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects and urban designers seeking a critical, practice-grounded counterpoint to conventional best-practice literature; architecture and landscape students studying built environment failures; academics and educators developing critical design curricula.