Sponsored by Malissa and Russel Kilpatrick and Bobby G. Wilder
"Contemporary Planting Design in Landscape Architecture"
Richard Hartlage, Land Morphology
This presentation will be an overview of meadow and matrix planting styles, prevalent in Germany, The Netherlands, England, and Belgium since World War I, and emerging as a significant component of contemporary American landscape architecture. Citygarden in St. Louis and The High Line are prominent examples of this trend. Meadows are an important emerging design style but are complicated to design, install, and manage and will be explained as a designed element in the rural, sub-urban, and urban landscape. The dynamic, block planting styles pioneered by Roberto Burle Marx, Thomas Church, and Garret Ecbo will also be discussed, along with sustainable matrixes of naturalistic and nonnative plants.
Planting design is an integral part of any successful garden. The focus will be on a range of landscape architects and professional garden designers working in the United States. A wide geographical range of projects will make the book appealing to a national audience. The presentation will promote and celebrate the talent and traditions in the United States because so many examples of projects are European, and then Americanized. This presentation is beautiful and inspirational, and includes practical information for the professional.
It is based on the book recently published my Monacelli Press that includes over fifty national public and private projects by more than twenty recognized firms.