Title & Author:

Order in the Landscape / [presented by] Preben Jakobsen.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1988.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (28 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Preben Jakobsen -- Park In Bristol -- Park In Kingston. Surrey, United Kingdom -- Radio Building. Aarhus, Denmark. Architect Sven Hansen -- Beach Flotsam -- Street Gutters. Left In Dragør Village, Denmark. Right At A Technical High School In Copenhagen -- Garden In Stanmore, London. 1979 -- Amphitheatre For Sun Life Canada, Basingstoke -- Garden Enclosure At Castle Drogo. Architect Edwin Lutyens -- Grass Encircled By Ceramic Wall. Denmark. Architect Jørn Utzon -- Spiral Paving At Hounslow Civic Centre, United Kingdom -- Garden At Stanmore -- Rill At Hounslow Civic Centre -- Vertical Features At Farnborough, United Kingdom -- Entrance Area. Anchor Foods, Swindon, United Kingdom -- Steps At West Mill, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom -- Steps In Zürich, Switzerland -- Steps In Denmark -- Romantic Garden, Schwetzingen. Heidelberg, Germany -- Folk Art Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Richard Meier -- Controlled View At Castle Drogo -- Gardens In England & Sweden -- Tree Grid At Olivetti Building. London. Architect Edward Cullinan -- Circular Garden Form, Broadwater Park, Denham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Summary:

The late Preben Jakobsen, who died in 2012, was a Danish landscape architect who trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in Britain, and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He practised in England from 1969 in partnership with his wife Margaret, a trained British architect, and they won many awards. "To produce good landscape" he says in his talk "it is essential to have order, structure and a design skeleton, the underlying geometric principle". A romantic at heart, he adds "You have to interest yourself in the geometry of the world, the dice of the gods, the Platonic solids". He tells us where he finds inspiration for his landscape-making which he considers an art form based, nevertheless, on technical know-how. He excels in the use of plant material - "the small things in landscape are as important as the overall concept: it is they that go to make the whole"- and he illustrates some of his own designs as well as those of other people.

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.

Added entries:

Jakobsen, Preben Hygum, narrator.