Lost Landscapes

"Rotterdam landscape architects LOLA (LOst LAndscapes) design and study landscapes that are forgotten, derelict or about to change. Since its founding in 2006, the office has worked on conceptual as well as realized projects in the city, on the outskirts and in the countryside. The designers at LOLA combine knowledge of large-scale ecosystems with contemporary ideas about space and nature. They seek to shape innovative and sublime landscapes - landscapes that result in an infectious new romanticism. In this book LOLA argues for a design practice centred on human experience. Described from a landscape architectural perspective, they take the reader on a journey along the life lines of the city, through niche landscapes and into the wild. With every step they show striking examples and raise relevant questions"--Back cover. "Lost Landscapes is a book about LOLA’s views and experience with regard to landscape, nature and leisure activities. The book identifies and describes the recurring similarities between divergent landscape projects and links these similarities to essays by Erik de Jong, Paul Roncken, René van der Velde, Eric Frijters and Olv Klein. In three chapters, LOLA takes three different paths from the city into the landscape of the 21st century: over Life Lines, along The Long Tail of Leisure, to end up dwelling through The Fat of the Land. LOLA landscape architects argue for innovative linear landscapes, cosmopolitan nature and landscapes in which human experience takes central stage"--LOLA lanscape architect's wemsite.