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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.
Pages: 246
Languages: German, English
28 × 24.5 cm
24 b/w ill., 211 col. ill.
Publication: 22 Dec 2010
ISBN 978-3-0346-0591-5
Publication: 12 Feb 2013
ISBN 978-3-0346-1079-7
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.