Front and back cover of Climate Art, Powering Communities in the 21st Century. Front cover image is Solar Leaf, a landscape of leaf-shaped solar modules designed by Iman Sheikhansari. Back cover is a curving linear array of solar modules on local bamboo support structures called Unleashing the Vanua by Jisoo Kim, Seung Hyo Chang, and Jisoo Kim.

Climate Art: Powering Island Communities in the 21st Century

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Publisher: Hirmer, 2025
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Elena van Hove
Dr. Ramendra Prasad
Lisa Farmen
Foreword by Ilisari Naqau Nasau

A Field Guide to Regenerative Water Technologies by Land Art Generator (Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry). Background is dark purple with an historic image of a beautifully designed water tower. Six icons on the left side show Harvesting, Storage, Treatment, Conveyance, Conservation, and The Built Environment sections.

A Field Guide to Regenerative Water Technologies

Authors/Designers: Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian
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For the launch of LAGI 2025 Fiji, we  put together a free Field Guide to Regenerative Water Technologies as a useful resource for all designers, urban planners, students, developers, artists, architects, landscape architects, engineers, homeowners, and anyone else interested in a better future. It is a companion guide to the Land Art Generator Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and we recommend that they be used together to arrive at beautiful hybrid systems that use energy and water technologies as media for creative expression and placemaking for people.

This water guide is organized by technology type, but you will find they often function most efficiently when designed as integrated systems of more than one technology type where flows of heat, electricity, and water work in harmony. Almost every one of the technologies in this water guide can be paired with solar electricity or solar thermal systems, providing abundant and carbon-free energy from the sun as the primary feedstock to locally defy entropy and limit the need for external resources.

Land Art as climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park by Land Art Generator Initiative. The front and back covers are shown with one image wrapping the entire cover, Plane of Water by Zsuzsa Péter. It's a white canopy of custom flexible solar modules over a garden.

Land Art As Climate Action

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Publisher: Hirmer, 2023
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Tina Nailor
Alessandra Scognamiglio
Sven Stremke
Foreword by Michael Schnellbach

Land Art of the 21st Century: Fly Ranch. Front and back covers are shown. On the front cover is a tensile structure with dark orange fabric with the sun setting behind. It's by Ricardo Solar and it's called Geocatcher. On the back cover is a project called Lodgers, a set of three organic forms made from local wood and grasses, one tall and two shorter, set in the sagebrush landscape of northern nevada.

Land Art of the 21st Century

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Publisher: Hirmer, 2021
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Harley Dubois
William Fox
Lisa Beers
Yodassa Williams
Foreword by Autumn Harry

Return to the Source: New Energy Landscapes from the Land Art Generator Initiative. Just the front cover is shown featuring an artwork by Santiago Muros Cortez called Solar Compass. It's a white circular shape that lifts off the ground on two sides and has a sweeping thin tower reaching for the sky.

Return to the Source

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Publisher: Prestel 2020
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Chris Wan
Lukas Sokol
Clark Miller
Andrew Dana Hudson
Naz Shahrokh
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Foreword by Yousef Baselaib, Executive Director, Sustainable Real Estate, Masdar

Energy Overleys Melbourne. Front cover only with a 3-D effect. Cover image is Light Up, an artwork of many yellow flexible thin film solar modules that form an curtain over the urban landscape.

Energy Overlays

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Publisher: Hirmer 2018
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Jodi Newcombe
Andrew Dana Hudson
David Helms
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Foreword by The Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio MP

Powering Places Santa Monica. Front book cover features Regatta H2O, an artwork by Christopher Sjoberg and Ryo Saito. It's a set of sail meshes that capture fog during marine inversions. A boat can be seen in the fog siding up to one of the pylons that support the sails.

Powering Places

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Publisher: Prestel 2016
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Patricia Watts
Glen Lowry
Barry Lehrman
James Harris
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Foreword by Craig Watson
Introduction by Shannon Daut

New Energies: Copenhagen. Book Cover (just the front) features The Solar Hourglass by Santiago Muros Cortes, an hourglass-shaped public sculpture with a beam of light in the center between the top and bottom bulb. Water rippling in the foreground.

New Energies

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Publisher: Prestel 2014
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Annette Skov
Laura Watts & Brit Ross Winthereik
Trine Plambech, Johanne Mose Entwistle, and Liselott Stenfeldt
Peter Karnøe
Chris Fremantle
Else Marie Bukdahl
Lea Schick and Anne Sophie Witzke
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian

Regenerative Infrastructures: Freshkills Park, NYC. Front book cover features Tree by Yijie Dang and Tom Tang. Large cluster of glowing orbs that create a gentle canopy over the park.

Regenerative Infrastructures

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Publisher: Prestel 2013
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Designer: Schifino Design

Writings by:
Ann T. Rosenthal
Heather Rogers
Terreform ONE
Thaddeus Pawlowski
Caroline Klein & Andreas O. Kipar
Robert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian
Foreword by Eloise Hirsh

A Field Guide to Renewable energy Technologies Second Edition by Land Art Generator (Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry). Dark blue field with old patent drawings for a wave energy converter. Six icons along the left show Solar, Wind, Water, Bio, Other, and Storage categories.

Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies 2nd Edition

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Editors & Designers: Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry

Our 2nd Edition Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies is available for free download! The future we would like to see is one in which we are surrounded by the most diverse ecosystem of renewable energy technologies and landscapes, each a reflection of local culture and context. In this future, where you will be surrounded by beautiful renewable energy generators, you will surely need a guidebook in order to know if that thing that you find so beautiful is a semiconductor-based artificial photosynthetic cell, a piezoelectric generator, a triboelectric fabric, or a dye-sensitized solar cell. What is the future that you would like to see? Use this guide and design your own renewable energy landscapes!

The Time is Now: Public Art of the Sustainable City. Book cover with thumbnails of projects in a blue greyscale.

The Time Is Now:
Public Art of the Sustainable City

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Publisher: Page One Publishing, 2012
Editors: Elizabeth Monoian, Robert Ferry, Rachel Koh
Designer: Page One Publishing

Writings by:
Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry
Beth Carruthers
Michiel van Raaij
Prof. Reuben S. Andrews
Foreword by Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of Masdar