Wright sought inspiration from nature and sometimes integrated the building with the site. However, Treib’s subtle explorations of the interconnectedness between their buildings’ relationships to nature or the site seemed like a far cry from the landscapes of modern architecture. The architecture of these modern masters has been revolutionary or evolutionary depending on the particular architect and all are significant. Van der Rohe ignored it and considered nature best contemplated from inside. Taken as a group, the work of these five architects sheds important light on the consideration and influence of the site and landscape on the practice of architecture during the 20th century.more Fully illustrated with rarely published archival drawings and plans, accompanied by the author’s own exceptional photographs, this book presents the spectrum of architectural responses to the constraints of site, climate, client, program, building material, region, and nation. The character of the sites on which these architects worked dramatically affected their architecture and gardens, a fact illustrated by Wright’s “organic” regard of the desert Mies’s evolving divorce of building from terrain Neutra’s transformation of the “realities” of the site Aalto’s use of the forest metaphor and interior landscapes and Barragán’s architectonic conversion of the land. Exploring a range of architectural, philosophical, and theoretical approaches, Treib investigates the site strategies of five prominent modern-period architects: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Richard Neutra (1892–1970), Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), and Luis Barragán (1902–1988). Noted landscape and architectural historian Marc Treib counters this prevailing view in an authoritative and unprecedented survey of 20th-century buildings and their landscapes. Modern architects are often condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations such as climate, topography, and existing vegetation. Noted landscape and architectural historian Marc Treib counters this preva An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern architects are often condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations such as climate, topography, and existing vegetation.
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