The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design

by Thaeisa Way

Book Overview

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295994487
• ISBN13: 9780295994482
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.7" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher