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NOGUCHI’S GARDENS: LANDSCAPE AS SCULPTURE BY MARC TREIB; NOVATO, CALIFORNIA: ORO EDITIONS, 2024; 304 PAGES, $70. Weaving biography and critical analysis with select case studies, Marc Treib, Honorary ASLA, asks readers to understand Isamu Noguchi’s artistic output through ideas of landscape. Themes of landform, water, and play trace through the projectoriented chapters. Famous plazas, such as California Scenario in Costa Mesa or the UNESCO garden in Paris, illustrate the artist’s attention to place, composition, and material. Treib also includes drawings and models of lesser-known works, like the early Monument to the Plough (1933), a conceptual project that used landscape as site and medium, anticipating the ambitions of the land art movement. IDEAS FOR SENSITIVE LANDSCAPES SHAPED BY EYES, EARS, AND HEART. URBAN SOUNDSCAPES: A GUIDE TO LISTENING FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN BY USUE…