Edited with text by Fabian de Kloe, Peter Veenstra, Joep Vossebeld.
A sumptuous introduction to the visionary gardens of Piet Oudolf—designer of New York's High Line garden—and the Dutch firm LOLA
This inspiring volume presents the garden vision of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. One of the world’s foremost living garden designers, and a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, Piet Oudolf (born 1944) has completed such famous projects as the garden for the High Line and Battery Park in New York, Oudolf Garden Detroit at Belle Isle Park, Delaware Botanic Gardens, Toronto Botanical Garden Entry Garden Walk, the Serpentine Gallery’s interior garden and the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. LOLA Landscape Architects is an architectural firm based in Rotterdam that specializes in transforming public spaces, often postindustrial sites, through the optimization of the landscape’s natural ecosystem. This beautifully realized volume takes the reader on an international journey through the gardens designed by Oudolf and LOLA, including a number of collaborative projects between the two, presenting the reimagination of public spaces and demonstrating the application of the gardening style of Sharawadgi, in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided to give the scene an organic, naturalistic appearance. The pursuit of Sharawadgi binds Oudolf and LOLA together in the goal of designing landscapes that appear to have emerged "naturally" yet evoke an overwhelming experience and inexplicable beauty. From the High Line in New York to the gardens of Hauser & Wirth in Somerset and the Star Maze in Tytsjerk to the Leisure Lane in Parkstad, this volume introduces us to Oudolf’s and LOLA's ultimate vision for the future: a global forest against the warming of the earth, a dream that can start in anyone’s garden, however big or small.
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Featured images are reproduced from Landscape Works with Piet Oudolf and LOLA: In Search of Sharawadgi, the highly anticipated new release from NAI010 Publishers documenting the visionary gardens of Dutch designer Piet Oudolf—best known for New York City's High Line—and Rotterdam landscape architecture firm LOLA—specialists in the transformation of public, often postindustrial, sites through the optimization of natural ecosystems. “In their work, Oudolf and LOLA strive for meaningful experience and use of the landscape by the public, from a shared, strong focus on the individual visitor," Fabian de Kloe writes. "In their designs, they always look for the human perspective. A successful landscape design at the level of the individual experience is crucial: it makes the difference between a no-go area and a place where people love to come. We largely experience our surroundings intuitively. At the same time, their designs aim to provide solutions to problems and challenges associated with large-scale industry, urbanization, mass tourism and traffic, and the impact these have on nature and the climate. Think of declining biodiversity, drought, but also the advance of invasive plant and animal species.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $61 ISBN: 9789462086302 PUBLISHER: nai010 publishers AVAILABLE: 8/31/2021 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: NA LA ME
Landscape Works with Piet Oudolf and LOLA In Search of Sharawadgi
Published by nai010 publishers. Edited with text by Fabian de Kloe, Peter Veenstra, Joep Vossebeld.
A sumptuous introduction to the visionary gardens of Piet Oudolf—designer of New York's High Line garden—and the Dutch firm LOLA
This inspiring volume presents the garden vision of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. One of the world’s foremost living garden designers, and a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, Piet Oudolf (born 1944) has completed such famous projects as the garden for the High Line and Battery Park in New York, Oudolf Garden Detroit at Belle Isle Park, Delaware Botanic Gardens, Toronto Botanical Garden Entry Garden Walk, the Serpentine Gallery’s interior garden and the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. LOLA Landscape Architects is an architectural firm based in Rotterdam that specializes in transforming public spaces, often postindustrial sites, through the optimization of the landscape’s natural ecosystem.
This beautifully realized volume takes the reader on an international journey through the gardens designed by Oudolf and LOLA, including a number of collaborative projects between the two, presenting the reimagination of public spaces and demonstrating the application of the gardening style of Sharawadgi, in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided to give the scene an organic, naturalistic appearance. The pursuit of Sharawadgi binds Oudolf and LOLA together in the goal of designing landscapes that appear to have emerged "naturally" yet evoke an overwhelming experience and inexplicable beauty.
From the High Line in New York to the gardens of Hauser & Wirth in Somerset and the Star Maze in Tytsjerk to the Leisure Lane in Parkstad, this volume introduces us to Oudolf’s and LOLA's ultimate vision for the future: a global forest against the warming of the earth, a dream that can start in anyone’s garden, however big or small.
