Grüner Wohnen. Green Living - by Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This volume in the series on contemporary landscape architecture is concerned with how life quality can be increased by improving our living environment through planning and raising the quality of public space. How green do we want our housing to be? What are the essential criteria of a successful planning of open space in residential architecture? Will the changed relationship between city and country contribute to that, perhaps in the form of urban agriculture?
This book was published on the occasion of the German Landscape Architecture Award 2011, the Special Housing Environment Award, and the largest competition for ideas from students and young professionals in landscape architecture and open space planning: the Peter Joseph Lenné Award. With a revised design and reworked structure, the essays and project descriptions in the book reveal the strategies with which the profession is meeting new challenges.

About the Author

The Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten (Federation of German Landscape Architects), or bdla, is an organization of landscape gardeners and architects who have come together to represent their professional interests. Its objectives include the socially and ecologically oriented development of residential areas and landscapes as well as open space planning based on solid design and planning expertise. With the Deutscher Landschaftsarchitektur-Preis (German Landscape Architecture Award), conferred since 1993, the bdla recognizes outstanding planning achievements (not restricted to its members) that exhibit aesthetic distinction as well as ecological goals.