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Edible Estates

Attack on the Front Lawn

Edible Estates( )
Artist: Haeg, Fritz
Preface by: Haeg, Fritz
Text by: Haeg, Fritz
Allen, Will
Balmori, Diana
Pollan, Michael
Sanderson, Eric
Stern, Lesley
ISBN:978-1-935202-12-7
Publication Date:Mar 2010
Publisher:D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Imprint:Metropolis Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

Preface by Fritz Haeg. Text by Will Allen, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Fritz Haeg, Michael Pollan, Eric W. Sanderson, Lesley Stern, et al.

Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Gardening / Lawns
Gardening / General
Gardening / Landscape
Nature / Plants / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.5 x 8.5 Inches
Book Weight:0.002 Pounds
Author Biography
(Artist)
Diana Balmori was born in Gijón, Spain on June 4, 1932. She studied architecture at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, but failed to receive a degree when the government expelled her entire class because of a student protest. She emigrated to the United States in 1952 with her husband. She received a doctorate in urban history at U.C.L.A. in 1973.

In 1980, she joined her husband's firm, César Pelli and Associates, where she created a department of landscape architecture and worked with him on several projects including the Winter Garden Atrium in the World Financial Center in Manhattan. She was a landscape architect whose ecologically sensitive designs integrated buildings and the natural environment. In 1990, she founded Balmori Associates. The firm worked on numerous projects including transforming the old industrial port of Bilbao, Spain, into a park system; the Gwynns Falls Trail in Baltimore; a trail system in Cedar Lake Park in Minneapolis; and South Korea's new administrative capital, Sejong City.

Her first book, Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes, written with Diane Kostial McGuire and Eleanor McPeck, was published in 1985. Her other books include Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony written with F. Herbert Bormann and Gordon T. Geballe, Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture written with Joel Sanders, and A Landscape Manifesto. She died from lung cancer on November 14, 2016 at the age of 84.

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