BOOKS
The Land Is Full
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Monacelli Press/Phaidon, 240 pages, $64.95
This monograph explores 12 major projects from the previous decade by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, including a dramatic renovation of Memorial Park in Houston; essential upgrades to Centennial Park in Nashville based in historical narrative; the glorious new Aga Khan Garden in Edmonton, Alberta; and the monumental Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The Land Is Full can be ordered directly from Phaidon here.
The projects are arranged among four defining essays by Thomas Woltz, the firm’s lead principal, and by Nina-Marie Lister, Brent Leggs, and Robert Pogue Harrison. THe book opens with a foreword by the historian Andrea Wulf. My role began with early concepts for the book and continued with my editing the contributors’ essays and visiting and writing about the individual projects.
