What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for Northern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these resilient outdoor spaces are finely attuned to the area's microclimates and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle for which Northern California is known. They make use of local building materials and craftspeople and offer their owners a unique emotional connection to nature. Firmly planted in time and place, the projects, complete with plans, define not so much a style as an experience and thrive with little effort from their owners.

Regional Landscape Architecture: Northern California: Rooted in Resilience

Arts & Photography

Head, Jeffrey

History & Criticism

Schiffer

What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these resilient outdoor spaces are finely attuned to the Mediterranean climate and the indoor-outdoor lifestyle for which Southern California is known. They make use of local building materials and craftspeople and offer their owners a unique emotional connection to nature. Firmly planted in time and place, the projects, complete with plans, define not so much a style as an experience and thrive with little effort from their owners.

Regional Landscape Architecture: Southern California: Mediterranean Modern

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography & Graphic Design, Peterson Gallery, Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University, October 20, 2005 through February 11, 2006. Design and typsetting by John Hill.

Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography and Graphic Design

Stanford University Libraries

Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Lauria, Jo

Chavkin, Daniel

Crafts & Hobbies

The Monacelli Press

Imagine a house constructed in less than forty-eight hours, without using lumber or nails, that is more resistant to fire, earthquakes, and hurricanes than any traditionally built structure. This may sound like the latest development in prefab housing or green architecture, but the design dates back to 1941 when architect Wallace Neff (1895 1982) developed Airform construction as a solution to the global housing crisis. Best known for his elegant Spanish Colonial revival estates in Southern California, Neff had a private passion for his dome-shaped "bubble houses" made of reinforced concrete cast in position over an inflatable balloon. No Nails, No Lumber shows the beauty and versatility of Neff 's design in new and vintage photography, previously unpublished illustrations, and archival material and ephemera.

No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff

Reference

Princeton Architectural Press

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