Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Projects
By Alan Tate and Marcella Eaton (Routledge, London & New York, 2024)

 
REVIEW Ron Williams
Fresh off the press, Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Projects, by Alan Tate and Marcella Eaton, is a beautiful and fascinating volume, and a pleasure to read. The book is a profusely illustrated exploration of a series of outstanding landscapes, all designed by human hand?though many are located within, and skillfully exploit or complement, the natural or vernacular landscapes in which they are located. 
The authors, both longtime professors in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba, previously collaborated on the second edition of Great City Parks (Routledge, 2015). The format of their new book is similar to that of their earlier work: a kaleidoscope of extremely varied projects, held together by a common theme. While Great City Parks focused on urban parks in North America and western Europe, the focus has been greatly expanded in the current work to include landscapes of twelve different project types, varying from private gardens to campus plans.  orthala Fields is a contemporary park adjacent England?s A40 roadway. Its design, which centres on mounds made of construction debris, was led by Art2 Architecture (later FoRM Associates). Photo by Studio Fink
A return to primary sources
Designed Landscapes is organized according to project types, allowing readers to compare and contrast the responses of diffe...