Cover image for Topotek 1, Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler, Rosemarie Trockel : eine landschaftsskulptur fur München = A landscape sculpture for Munich
Title:
Topotek 1, Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler, Rosemarie Trockel : eine landschaftsskulptur fur München = A landscape sculpture for Munich
Publication Information:
Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, c2011
Physical Description:
245 p. (some folded) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
ISBN:
9783034605915
Personal Subject:
Trockel, Rosemarie, 1952-

Rein-Cano, Martin, 1967-

Dexler, Lorenz, 1968-
Corporate Subject:
Topotek 1 (Firm) -- Designs and plans
Subject Term:
Landscape architecture -- Germany -- Munich

Outdoor sculpture -- Germany -- Munich

Parks -- Germany -- Munich -- Designs and plans

Gardens -- Germany -- Munich -- Designs and plans

Munich (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Added Author:
Rein-Cano, Martin, 1967-

Dexler, Lorenz, 1968-

Folkerts, Thilo, 1967-

Trockel, Rosemarie, 1952-

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Summary

Summary

Topotek 1 is one of Germany's internationally best-known landscape architecture firms. Rosemarie Trockel is currently one of Germany's

most important artists; she has made a name for herself through highly unconventional works that have often been exhibited in New

York, Chicago, at documenta Kassel, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere. The new and extremely playful park in Munich is the result of a

collaboration between them. It covers a three-hundred-meter section of railroad tracks and creates urgently needed open space for the

neighborhood of Theresienhöhe. In addition to the design, technically demanding questions like the approach to statics, acoustics, and

traffic safety also needed to be solved. This has been achieved with an intricate costly and elaborate mix of gravel, pine trees, plastic ,

artificial turf, styrofoam, and concrete, which creates varied textures for the site. This monograph examines the new park design in a

number of essays and documents the design and production process.


Author Notes

Editor Thilo Folkerts is a landscape architect and publishes widely in this field.

Marc Treib is an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Publications on the Japanese garden, the

theory of landscape planning, and other subjects.

Brigitte Franzen is a specialist in cultural studies and director of the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Ludwig Forum for International

Art) in Aachen. She curated skulptur projekte münster 07 (sculpture projects münster 07). Publications on the garden in contemporary

art as well as on landscape theory.

Pietro Valle studied architecture at IUAV in Venice and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is Professor of Design at the University of Ferrara and has published widely on architecture and the visual arts.