Between Garden and City: Jean Canneel-Claes and Landscape Modernism

by Dorothée Imbert

In Between Garden and City, Doroth e Imbert examines the career of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes (1909-1989), firmly establishing his place in the modernist movement. Canneel's theoretical positions and innovative designs sought to align the emergent landscape profession with architecture and urbanism while demonstrating its potential to address the needs of modern society. Canneel studied at La Cambre (Belgium's equivalent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822943700
• ISBN13: 9780822943709
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.2"