Main entry:

Spens, Michael.

Title & Author:

The complete landscape designs and gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe / Michael Spens ; foreword by Geoffrey Jellicoe ; special photography by Hugh Palmer.

Publication:

New York : Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Description:

212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-211) and index.
PART ONE THE EARLY WORKS 1927-1960 -- Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset -- Cheddar Gorge, Somerset -- Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire -- Royal Lodge, Windsor -- Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire -- St. Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire -- No. 19 Grove Terrace, Highgate -- Hope Cement Works, Derbyshire -- Church Hill Memorial Gardens, Walsall -- Sandringham House, Norfolk -- Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire -- Cadbury Estate, Moreton -- University of Nottingham -- Harvey's Store, Guildford -- Ruskin Park, St. Helens -- Park Royal, Middlesex -- PART TWO A PHILOSOPHY OF LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN 1960-1980 -- Rutherford Laboratories, Harwell -- Cliveden, Buckinghamshire -- Christchurch Meadow, Oxford -- Kennedy Memorial, Runnymede -- Horsted Place, Sussex -- Everton Park, Bedfordshire -- Shute House, Wiltshire -- Hartwell House, Aylesbury -- University of California, Berkeley -- Smaller Projects of the Period -- PART THREE FULL FLOWERING: THE MASTER PERIOD FROM 1980 -- Sutton Place, Surrey -- Modena, Italy -- Brescia, Italy -- The Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas -- Atlanta Historical Gardens, Georgia -- Smaller Projects of the Period

Summary:

Geoffrey Jellicoe has long been regarded internationally as the pre-eminent landscape architect of our time. The recipient of many honors, including a knighthood, he now ranks among the century's leading artists in any medium. His working career spans more than six decades, and embraces a truly staggering variety of landscapes and gardens. Project by project, this authoritative monograph examines the definitive canon of Jellicoe's work.
Divided into three major sections, the book chronicles Jellicoe's progress towards his remarkable late flowering after 1964, when he finally freed himself from the demands of running a formal practice to concentrate on developing his own unique vision and philosophy of man's relationship to his environment. The author's introduction provides an invaluable guide to the underlying vocabulary and idioms of Jellicoe's work: water, viewpoints, axes, paths, routes, groves, landmarks, secret gardens, elevation and gradation. Over fifty projects, both planned and fully realized, are described in detail, often with a preamble by the author, followed by Jellicoe's own comments, either drawn from his own unpublished papers or from his classic texts on landscape design.
The projects include his masterworks: Shute House, Sutton Place, the Moody Gardens and the Atlanta Historical Gardens. Several complete designs have been specially photographed by Hugh Palmer to show the development of Geoffrey Jellicoe's work over years of growth and change, notably at Ditchley, St. Paul's Walden Bury and Shute. Where available, Geoffrey Jellicoe's own plans have been reprinted in full color, some on 6-page foldouts; many of these have never been reproduced in book form before.
Michael Spens has enjoyed the benefit of considerable assistance from Geoffrey Jellicoe, whose own contribution to the book has been substantial. As a survey of the work of the century's foremost landscape architect, this volume is as important a contribution to the literature of landscape and garden design as his own The Landscape of Man, also published by Thames and Hudson.

ISBN:

0500015961
9780500015964

Subject:

Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996.
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan.
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1900-
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, (1900- )
Landscape architects Great Britain.
Landscape design Great Britain.
Landscape design England.
Aménagement paysager Grande-Bretagne.
Jardins Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architectes paysagistes Grande-Bretagne.
Landscape architects.
Landscape design.
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
Architecture des jardins.
Great Britain.
Gardens
Gardens, English
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Added entries:

Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996.
Palmer, Hugh.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 99551
Call No.: ID SB470; ID:94-B1025
Status: Available