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Peter G.RollandSelected Bibliography






About:
 

Currently a visiting CCNY distinguished lecturer in landscape architecture, Peter Rolland,  FASLA, is a landscape architect and site planner with an office in Rye, N.Y. He has practiced internationally, having landscaped 80 acres around the parliament buildings in Canberra, Australia.  His master plan for this commission was termed “... an elegant piece of Conceptual Art,” by the New York Times in 1991. Mr. Rolland has also taught landscape architecture at Harvard's GSD.
 

Articles:

“Adaptation and accommodation: the natural and man-made landscape.”GSD news / Harvard University. Graduate School of Design 1990 Summer-Fall, v.19, no.1, p.10. 

Note: Projects in a landscape design studio taught by Peter Rolland, for a training center on a 350-acre site adjacent to I-89 in Enfield, N.H. (Avery Index Online)

“Landscape architecture: landscaping the new Parliament House [Canberra].”Architecture Australia 1989 Mar., v.78, p.71,73,75.

“Fra?nband till hel bil”Anders To?rnqvist.Arkitektur: the Swedish review of architecture 1988 Nov., v.88, no.9, p.10-19,55-56 .

Note:The Kalmar factory for Volvo (architects: Gerhard Goehle, Owe Sva?rd); and Volvo Torslanda (architects: Mitchell Giurgola Architects, Peter G. Rolland & Associates, AKOS and Arkotek Arkitekter). (Avery Index Online)

“Quality pavements for Australia's new Parliament House.” Don Anderson.Landscape Australia 1988 Aug., v.10, n.3, p.314, 316, 318-319, 322-324.

“Winners in the 1977 professional design competition of ASLA.”Landscape architecture 1977 July, v.67, no.4, whole issue.

“Peter G. Rolland and Assocs., landscape archts. -- 12. Interstate 696 Joint Development Plan, Detroit, Mich.; Vilican-Leman and Assocs., archts.”(ASLA Award winner).Landscape architecture 1973 Oct., v. 64, n. 1, p. 476-492.

“Peter G. Rolland and Assocs., landscape archts. -- 6. Fountain Plaza, Wilmington, Del .”(ASLA Award winner).Landscape architecture 1971 July, v. 61, n. 4, p. [344]-357.

Web Site:

The New York State Council of Landscape Architects.See www.nyscla.org/db/nyscla_details.php?id=74 for Peter Rolland’s listing.

 

J. Connorton

October 2004