Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age Edited by Sonja D端mpelmann, Charles Waldheim
Harvard Design Studies
Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they remain relatively peripheral in design discourse. In spite of this, landscape architects have recently reaffirmed their historic assertions about the airfield as a site of design. Airport Landscape presents these practices through case study projects for the ecological enhancement of operating airports and the conversion of abandoned airports. This material supports the claim of an augmented role for landscape architects commensurate with their desire to be considered urbanists of the aerial age. The book gathers work from the eponymous exhibition at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, presenting the airport as a site of and for landscape.
January 2016 Designed by Sam de Groot Softcover ca. 275 pages 22.5 x 29.69 cm ISBN 978-1-934510-47-6 $24.95 Distributed by Harvard University Press