Kongjian Yu's Books

Designed Ecologies

The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu

By: William S. Saunders

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The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu

By: William S. Saunders

China's foremost landscape designer Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture firm in China today. The vast scale of China and its apparently boundless growth have enabled Yu to test many ideas that are still largely theories in the Western world. His work, increasingly valued and appreciated in Europe and North America, has attained an extremely high and elegant level in both conception and execution. Kongjian Yu is known for his ecological stance, often against the resistance of local authorities. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan. This book explores Yu's work in some ten essays by noted authors and extensively documents some 18 selected projects.

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255

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Birkhauser

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3034607385

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9783034607384

Landscape Architecture Frontiers 48

Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future

By: Kongjian Yu

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Landscape Architecture Frontiers 48

Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future

By: Kongjian Yu

Design is a means to satisfy social demands, and such demands come from human desires. Only when individuals' desires fuse and grow into a collective consensus, can they be manifested and conveyed in various landscape forms as new public goods. As a public goods serving human desires and social demands, landscape design faces both challenges and opportunities preceding undergoing public crises. In this issue, LA Frontiers explores the implications of human desires on public behaviors through cross-disciplinary lenses of philosophy, social psychology, cognitive science, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, history, etc. It would offer inspiring insights for landscape professionals to identity their role in responding to contemporary demands and those of future societies. At present, in view of the spatial isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent prevalence of contactless services, the current conventional space-time narrative may be dramatically changed. The fact that both "observing" and "being observed" now become consumer goods within landscape enables landscape architects to recognize and examine people's suppressed desires and unmet needs, introspect the rationality and necessity of marginal desires, and thus, redefine the sophisticated interactions between landscape design and human desires, as well social demands.

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178

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Frontiers

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1954081405

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9781954081406

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

By: Gary Austin,Kongjian Yu

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Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

By: Gary Austin,Kongjian Yu

This book explains how with careful planning and design, the functions and performance of constructed wetlands can provide a huge range of benefits to humans and the environment. It documents the current designs and specifications for free water surface wetlands, horizontal and vertical subsurface flow wetlands, hybrid wetlands and bio retention basins; and explores how to plan, engineer, design and monitor these natural systems. Sections address resource management (landscape planning), technical issues (environmental engineering and botany), recreation and physical design (landscape architecture), and biological systems (ecology). Site and municipal scale strategies for flood management, storm-water treatment and green infrastructure are illustrated with case studies from the USA, Europe and China, which show how these principles have been put into practice. Written for upper level students and practitioners, this highly illustrated book provides designers with the tools they need to ensure constructed wetlands are sustainably created and well manage

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400

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Routledge

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1317438930

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9781317438939

Ideal Landscapes the Deep Meaning of Feng Shui

Patterns of Biological and Cultural Genes

By: Kongjian Yu

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Ideal Landscapes the Deep Meaning of Feng Shui

Patterns of Biological and Cultural Genes

By: Kongjian Yu

This is a book about ideal landscapes and Feng-Shui. Using evolutionary and anthropological approaches, Peking University professor Kongjian Yu--who holds a doctorate degree in Design from Harvard--explores the origin, structure, and meanings of Feng-Shui in juxtaposition to the ideal landscape models in Chinese culture. Using illustrative site observations and literature, Yu argues that Feng-Shui landscapes share similar structures with other Chinese ideal landscapes--the implications of which are deconstructed into terms of geography, anthropology, ecology, and philosophy. As a landscape architect and urbanist, Professor Yu respects the role of Feng-Shui in the making of places, yet still is in opposition to its superstitious nature. Well illustrated and poetically written, this book is a must-read for those who are interested in Feng-Shui, as well as for those who care about their daily living environment in general--especially those who practice architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

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168

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Oro Editions

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1943532753

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9781943532759

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

By: Gary Austin,Kongjian Yu

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By: Gary Austin,Kongjian Yu

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Taylor & Francis

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1317438949

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9781317438946

Book's by Kongjian Yu

Designed Ecologies

Designed Ecologies

Landscape Architecture Frontiers 48

Landscape Architecture Frontiers 48

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

Ideal Landscapes the Deep Meaning of Feng Shui

Ideal Landscapes the Deep Meaning of Feng Shui

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development

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