Creative Regionalism: Renewing the Aesthetic Experience of Landscape in Environmental Design and Planning - Paperback

by David D. Hopman (Author), Fritz Steiner (Foreword by)

Critical regionalism is a place-based approach to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning that emphasizes and embraces combining local and regional influences--natural and cultural--into the design and planning process. In such a world view, emphasis is placed on design responses to the vernacular and ecological characteristics of a region while respecting other historic and contemporary influences. Hopman carefully explains how and why this regionalist approach is invaluable to creating viable and sustainable landscapes and buildings. Architects and designers are shown the effectiveness of a resilient and continuously adaptive design methodology--a methodology that acknowledges both regional and global traditions and celebrates the creativity of individual designs that anchor the past with the present.