{"product_id":"envisioning-landscapes-the-transformative-environments-of-ojb-hardcover","title":"Envisioning Landscapes: The Transformative Environments of Ojb - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOjb Landscap Ojb Landscape Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Lamster\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Hawthorne\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisionary landscape architecture firm OJB reveals the guiding principles behind its award-winning work in this new, expanded edition of its debut monograph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOJB Landscape Architecture challenges the conventional boundaries of its field, emphasizing placemaking as a mechanism for healing, community-building, and celebration. At its core, the award-winning firm believes that landscape is a social and collective tool for integration, reclamation, and healing. This principle guides all of the firm's projects across sectors, from its designs deepening our relationship to nature, such as public parks, and sites promoting restorative healthcare, such as campuses for hospitals and wellness centers, to large-scale urban landscapes conceived to reconnect and revitalize communities, such as the acclaimed RiverFront in Omaha and the other multi-project narratives in which landscapes connect and build on each other over several years to create thoughtfully realized and impactful environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new, expanded edition of OJB's debut monograph, the pioneering firm shares its remarkable and meaningful work- and the philosophy that drives it - through fifteen projects of varied typologies across the United States. Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Landscapes \u003c\/i\u003ealso includes a new foreword by \u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News \u003c\/i\u003earchitecture critic Mark Lamster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1989 by landscape architect James Burnett and now led by partners across the country, \u003cb\u003eOJB Landscape Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e has grown to more than one hundred professionals working across six offices. OJB is the recipient of more than 150 significant national and international awards, including several national awards for the creation of urban parks that return civic engagement to the forefront of cities. OJB is the recipient of the 2020 National Design Award in landscape architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the 2015 Firm Award from the American Society of Landscape Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Lamster\u003c\/b\u003e is the architecture critic of \u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e and a Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Fellow. His biography of the architect Philip Johnson, \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the Glass House\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Hawthorne\u003c\/b\u003e is Los Angeles's first Chief Design Officer. Prior to that, he was the architecture critic for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e from 2004 to 2018, the architecture critic for \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and a frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of \u003ci\u003eThe Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad McKee\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist who focuses on landscapes and public affairs. He was the editor of \u003ci\u003eLandscape Architecture Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e from 2010 to 2020. He lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Walker\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally recognized landscape architect and founder of PWP Landscape Architecture. Over five decades, Walker has designed parks, gardens, corporate headquarters, urban landscapes, campuses, museums, and memorials around the world. Among his significant projects are the National 9\/11 Memorial in New York, the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD, and the Barangaroo waterfront renewal project in Sydney, Australia, which won an American Architecture Prize for Landscape Design of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10.2 x 8.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457527791869,"sku":"9781580937412","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/3ikqYOn3Mt9781580937412.webp?v=1777238078","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/envisioning-landscapes-the-transformative-environments-of-ojb-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}