The Exsterior Design - Asla's 2011 Best Residential Landscapes : part 2 ~ INFO ~ Home Design

The Exsterior Design - Asla's 2011 Best Residential Landscapes : part 2

Each year, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awards professional awards to the year's best residential landscape designs. We have all eight winners from this year's competition, with entries ranging from a renovation of Philip Johnson's Beck House in Dallas (shown above) to a cascade of terraces for a New York City apartment.

ASLA Award Winner Salame Residence by Reed Hilderbrand Dallas Philip Johnson's monumental 1964 Beck House was conceived as a theatrical viewing platform for the surrounding landscape—a motive pursued more simply and elegantly in Johnson's own Glass House fifteen years earlier. The Beck House renovation, completed in 2009, critically revises this modernist paradigm. By deftly altering Johnson's conceptual break-line between building and landscape, the project demonstrates landscape architecture's capacity to integrate the conservation of the material legacy of a project with direct engagement of the visual, spatial, ecological, and domestic characteristics of the site.

ASLA Award Winner Salame Residence by Reed Hilderbrand Dallas Stabilized bank planting and shallow steps in place of tall walls allow Bachman Creek to flood without erosion or damage to the site.

ASLA Award Winner Salame Residence by Reed Hilderbrand Dallas Pathway from the main entry to the private family entry.

ASLA Award Winner A Farm at Little Compton by Michael Vergason Landscape Architects Little Compton, RI View to ocean across grazing field layered by restored stonewalls and managed hedgerows. Rain chains carry roof drainage to fern beds at building base.

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