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South African landscape architecture - A compendium (Paperback, New)
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South African landscape architecture - A compendium (Paperback, New)
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South African landscape architecture: A compendium is a
ground-breaking publication, celebrating 64 of South Africa's
outstanding landscape architecture projects. Influential design,
environmental, cultural and scientific professional practice
projects, spanning more than 25 years, are documented in
full-colour. Since 1985, the Institute for Landscape architects of
South Africa (ILASA) has recognised landscape architecture projects
worthy of merit awards. These renowned projects are chronologically
ordered in articles, many of which have previously been published
in journals (several of which are no longer in print). The merit
award projects, as published in the original journals, are
collected here to preserve them as a set of historically
significant (and landmark) projects in one consolidated
publication, while showcasing the best professional work of South
Africa's prominent landscape architects. As an invaluable
all-in-one resource to contemporary practitioners and scholars, the
Compendium presents those key projects which led to the profession
becoming a cornerstone to the creation of outdoor space. Moreover,
the inspired leadership reflected in these projects has contributed
towards cultural and environmental stewardship in South Africa.
This retrospective study advances the knowledge of rigorous local
practice on an international level, and confirms the vital role of
quality outdoor public and private spaces. The Compendium
publicises the great achievements of South African landscape
architects and assists in creating a detailed and comprehensive
understanding of the discipline of landscape architecture. It
serves, too, as a benchmark, locally, for peers and
multi-disciplinary design and environmental teams. South African
landscape architecture: A reader consists of long theoretical
research papers as well as shorter, focused and applied research
articles presented with full colour illustrations. Each paper in
the Reader was subject to editorial review, internal review at
Unisa Press and thereafter external double-blind peer review
facilitated by Unisa Press as an academic publisher. As such, it
represents excellence in academic rigour. It is a publication of
definitive works by leading researchers in a contemporary method.
The academic writings are diverse, supporting the expression of
sub-disciplines within a larger context. This book provides an
accessible vehicle for the dissemination of the research. Research
in landscape architecture has passed a threshold in this
publication. It represents the advancement of local scholarly
outputs within an international academic fraternity. These outputs
are based on the latest research within the fields of theory,
culture, heritage, science and design. The studies in the Reader
heighten the academic stature of innovative collaborative research.
The Reader serves as a platform for current South African landscape
architecture theory to be published in the academic domain, making
it widely accessible to local and international peers. The Reader
provides an opportune medium for the publication of research which
has created a focused and pronounced view of landscape architecture
in South Africa. The editors trust that it will provide a platform
for future investigations in extended academic research in the
discipline.
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