Showcasing the design of Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (PFS), a leading Canadian planning, urban design and landscape architecture firm, this comprehensive, thought-provoking and visually stunning book consists of seven commissioned essays by foremost architects, planners, landscape architects and historians working today. Michael Van Valkenburgh introduces the book with a compelling Foreword, and each author, including Bruce Kuwabara, Ken Greenberg, Doug Paterson, Julian Smith, Eduard Koegel, Jacqueline Hucker and Kelty ...
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Showcasing the design of Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (PFS), a leading Canadian planning, urban design and landscape architecture firm, this comprehensive, thought-provoking and visually stunning book consists of seven commissioned essays by foremost architects, planners, landscape architects and historians working today. Michael Van Valkenburgh introduces the book with a compelling Foreword, and each author, including Bruce Kuwabara, Ken Greenberg, Doug Paterson, Julian Smith, Eduard Koegel, Jacqueline Hucker and Kelty McKinnon, touches on provocative conceptual approaches to design that PFS takes within their practice. From Contemporary Urbanism, Dynamic Process, Cultural Landscapes, Super Natural, Contemporary Commemoration, Global Flows to Bodily Places, each essay theme covers and explores different PFS projects from Sherbourne Park in Toronto, to Confederation Square in Ottawa, from Vimy Memorial Restoration in France to Huang Pu in China. An interview by the three founding partners of PFS, Chris Phillips, Marta Farevaag and Greg Smallenberg, forms a binding thread that holds the book together.
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Fine. No Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" Tall. (CAD) 1st printing. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 286pp, colour and B&W photos and plans. Phullips Farevaag Smallenberg is a leading Canadian landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm based in Vancouver BC. Founded by landscape architcts Chris Phillips and Greg Smallenberg, and urban planner Marta Farevaag, PFS's interdisciplinary approach results in a dynamic open-ended process that is evident in the diverse espression of their projects such as the Vimy Memorial Restoration in France, the Shouqiu Shaohao Mausoleum in Qufu, China; Richmond's Olympic Oval, Richmond BC City Hall, Ottawa's Confederation Square, Hastings Park in Vancouver. A heavy book. (5.0 JM LVR 204/0.
