Peter Walker & Partners: Landscape Architecture Defining the Craft

This book features their work since 1997 and brilliantly highlights the firms range including sixteen built projects in Europe, Asia and the United States, parks, corporate headquarters, foundations, museums and urban plazas. The book also includes seven works in progress including the American Embassy in Beijing and the World Trade Centre Memorial in New York City.

The book opens with a short essay about the organization and philosophy of the office, the partners and associates, and the particular way that PWP practises the craft of landscape architecture. It concludes with four competitions, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

About the Author

Peter Walker

Peter Walker is a partner in the Newcastle office of DEWJOC Architects, a practice with offices in the North East and London. DEWJOC specialises in the design of education buildings, laboratories and clean rooms in the UK and abroad. Prior to this, he was a director of Conran Design Group, a multidisciplinary design consultancy.

Peter teaches part time at the School of Architecture of Newcastle University and is variously an external examiner, on the advisory board and a visiting lecturer at Northumbria, Huddersfield and the Queen’s University, Belfast.

Peter has a particular interest in the way architects manage the design and procurement process, and in the education of architects in this area. He is a member of the Architects Registration Board Education and Practice Advisory Group, and is the co-author (with Dr David Greenwood) of the Construction Companion to Risk and Value Management.