George Hargreaves

Despite its importance to place-making, urban planning and the environment, landscape design has often played an inferior role to architecture. Coinciding with heightened social sensitivities, advances in material application, data-driven mapping techniques and digital technologies and construction methods, new practices in landscape design are producing a new wave of work around the world. This overdue publication presents work by the 50 most innovative practices across the globe. From dedicated landscape designers to architects turning their hand to the horizontal plane, an entirely new language of design is reshaping our gardens, public squares, leisure areas and business parks. A successor to "Digital Architecture Now", this largeformat, highly visual publication is packed with inspirations and new spatial ideas for a world of more beautifully designed outdoors.

Hargreaves Associates has been at the forefront of landscape architectural practice since its founding in 1983. This volume presents projects from throughout the firm's 25-year history, showing the development of its work from the early days to its current direction advancing the reoccupation of industrial sites, reclaiming waterfronts and creating new visions for public space. Whether reductive or rich, highly programmed or passive, culturally interpretive or teeming with the phenomena of natures own systems, the built landscapes of Hargreaves Associates seek the power of connection to our day-to-day lives.