New Horizons: Eight Perspectives on Chinese Landscape Architecture introduces a generation of Chinese landscape architects working in the space between local tradition and international influence — studios largely unknown outside China yet producing some of the most formally inventive landscape work anywhere.
About This Book
A new wave of Chinese landscape architects has emerged from years of international training and practice, returning to China with a synthesis of eastern and western approaches that resists easy categorisation. This book is the first sustained look at that generation — not as a monolithic movement, but as eight distinct studios with their own methodologies, aesthetics, and relationships to place. Structured around expert critical essays followed by in-depth studio profiles, it gives both analytical context and direct access to the practitioners themselves through founder interviews. For landscape architects, urban designers, and anyone tracking the future of designed outdoor environments, this is essential primary material.
Key Features
- 280 pages of richly illustrated studio profiles, critical essays, and founder interviews
- Edited by Jutta Kehrer
- Profiles of eight innovative Chinese landscape architecture studios
- Published by Birkhäuser, ISBN: 9783035621457
What You'll Discover
- How a new generation of Chinese landscape architects synthesises eastern tradition with western training to produce formally inventive, context-rooted work
- The individual approaches of eight studios — profiled in depth with projects, processes, and design thinking examined in detail
- Critical framing through expert essays that position this generation within broader global landscape discourse
- Direct insight from studio founders via interviews, revealing the motivations and influences behind their practice
About the Author
Jutta Kehrer is the editor of this volume. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 280
- Dimensions: 270 x 200 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035621457
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, and design researchers with an interest in contemporary Chinese practice and the cross-cultural currents shaping landscape architecture globally.