Landscapers : building with the land / Aaron Betsky

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1. Engineered utopias -- House in Wales / Future Systems -- Corrugated duct house / Neil Denari -- Guadalupe River Park / Hargreaves Associates -- Great glass house / Foster and Partners -- Springtecture A / Shuhei Endo -- Terrasson greenhouse / Ian Ritchie Architects -- Olympic Velodrome / Dominique Perrault -- Water pavilion / NOX -- Secret garden / West 8 -- Fukuoka Prefectural International Hall / Emilio Ambasz -- Miyagi Stadium / Hitoshi Abe -- Raybould house / Kolatan/Mac Donald Studio -- Punta Nave building / Renzo Piano building workshop -- Part 2. Caves and caverns: Burrowing into the land to discover new spatial experiences -- Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium / Fumihiko Maki -- Hompukuji Water Temple / Tadao Ando -- Minnaert building / Neutelings Riedijk -- Vietnam Veterans memorial / Maya Lin -- Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum / Tadao Ando -- Igualada Cemetery / Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós -- Thermal baths / Peter Zumthor -- Larrenguade Tunnel / François et Associés -- Multimedia workshop / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA -- Deer Valley Rock Art Center / William Bruder -- Villa Wilbrink / UN Studio -- Entrance pavilion / Massimiliano Fuksas -- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art expansion / Steven Holl -- Hydroelectric plant / Claudine Lorenz, Florian Musso -- Part 3. Unfolding the land: Opening up the earth to create architectural forms -- Tram terminal / Zaha Hadid -- Central library / Mecanoo -- Casa verde / Abalos + Herreros -- Diamond Ranch High School / Morphosis -- Museum of the earth / Weiss/Manfredi Architects -- Spencer Theater / Antoine Predock -- Neurosciences Institute / Tod Williams and Billie Tsien -- Institute for Forestry and Nature Research / Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner -- Landesgartenschau pavilion / Zaha Hadid -- Satelite tracking station / Gustav Peichl -- Archery range / Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós -- American Hertiage Center and Art Museum / Antoine Predock -- Hiyoshi Community Center / Norihiko Dan -- Electrical substation / Hans-Joerg Ruch -- Adidas campus / Angélil/Graham -- Part 4. A new nature: Buildings that merge landscape with architecture, the natural with the human -- Roden Crater / James Turrell -- Dutch pavilion / MVRDV -- Nice tramway terminal / Marc Barani -- Crystal Palace concert platform / Ian Ritchie Architects -- Dunescape / SHoP -- Dominus winery / Herzog & de Meuron -- City of culture / Peter Eisenman -- Maryhill nature overlook / Allied Works Architecture -- Baumaxx Hypermarket / Njiric & Njiric -- Denia Castle cultural park / Vicente Guallart -- Bibliotheca Alexandrina / Snøhetta -- Edge of a city / Steven Holl -- Rural holiday houses / François et Associés.

Ever since the discovery of the cave, humans have made use of nature's geological formations. It has been only recently, however, that developments in structural engineering have made it possible to engage the earth's surface as a building element in its own right. With an increasing awareness of our planet's limited natural resources and with landscape architects exerting ever-greater influence on contemporary design, the most acclaimed architectural practices from around the world are building into the earth, merging man-made forms with the contours of the land.