The Contemporary Garden
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An inspiring guide to 100 gardens from the early 1920s to the present day, illustrating modern and non-traditional garden design, including work of Topher Delaney, Robert Burle Marx, Luis Barragan, Martha Schwartz and Tony Heywood. Including glossary to terms nd styles, directory of gardens, index.
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February 2009, New York
The Contemporary Garden
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An inspiring guide to 100 gardens from the early 1920s to the present day, illustrating modern and non-traditional garden design, including work of Topher Delaney, Robert Burle Marx, Luis Barragan, Martha Schwartz and Tony Heywood. Including glossary to terms nd styles, directory of gardens, index.
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In Europe, it is the specific site and the landscape architect’s sensitivity to its intrinsic geographical and historical characteristics and processes that inspire new functions and forms. This publication presents 48 pioneering projects and strategies in landscape architecture from Berlin to Bordeaux and from Akkarvikodden in Norway to Évora in Portugal, supplemented by(...)
On site : landscape architecture Europe
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In Europe, it is the specific site and the landscape architect’s sensitivity to its intrinsic geographical and historical characteristics and processes that inspire new functions and forms. This publication presents 48 pioneering projects and strategies in landscape architecture from Berlin to Bordeaux and from Akkarvikodden in Norway to Évora in Portugal, supplemented by essays on subjects following from these projects. An independent jury of practising landscape architects from various European countries has selected the projects, and the texts have been edited by a team of experienced European professionals.
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Qui ne connaît le château de Versailles et ses jardins?. Et pourtant, nul n'a abordé les messages cachés que cet ouvrage révèle. À travers le jeune héros et son guide Elouane, le lecteur apprend à décrypter la symbolique de la statuaire des jardins, qui apparaît alors comme une mémoire de pierre, de marbre et de bronze. Parterres, bosquets, statues et fontaines, pièces(...)
Les jardins initiatiques du château de Versailles
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Qui ne connaît le château de Versailles et ses jardins?. Et pourtant, nul n'a abordé les messages cachés que cet ouvrage révèle. À travers le jeune héros et son guide Elouane, le lecteur apprend à décrypter la symbolique de la statuaire des jardins, qui apparaît alors comme une mémoire de pierre, de marbre et de bronze. Parterres, bosquets, statues et fontaines, pièces d'eau et terrasses, font des jardins de Versailles une véritable base de données artistique, historique, politique, mais aussi ésotérique. L'esthétique le dispute à la matière, les mythes et les légendes à l'histoire. Inscrits et donc mémorisés dans les jardins, les allégories et les symboles livrent les intentions du créateur et le sens qu'il veut donner à sa pensée et à son action. Il faut donc savoir discerner le visible et l'invisible. Car c'est bien le mystère des jardins du château de Versailles : s'il y a des messages visibles, il y en a aussi d'invisibles. Mises en place volontairement et consciemment par ses créateurs, ce n'est pas tant les statues en elles-mêmes que leurs interactions qui délivrent ces messages. Dans ces jardins où tout est mythe et symbole, le lecteur découvrira qu'il y a du sens dans l'invisible.
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Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was once the most productive agriculture in recorded human history. In a history that has been hidden in plain sight, working-class gardeners have consistently played an outsized(...)
Tiny gardens everywhere: The past, present, and future of the self-provisioning city
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Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was once the most productive agriculture in recorded human history. In a history that has been hidden in plain sight, working-class gardeners have consistently played an outsized role. In London, they devised ways to feed themselves when wage labor fell short. In Paris, a superabundance of horse manure in the streets nourished urban gardens that fed two million residents. In Berlin, gardeners built social safety nets for those marginalized by the state. In Washington, DC, African American migrants brought rural traditions of self-provisioning that were later disrupted by “urban renewal.” In rustbelt Mansfield, Ohio, farming ex-cons grow hope for the city’s future. In post-Soviet Estonia, shared gardens became lifelines for survival amid economic upheaval. And in Amsterdam, activists are reclaiming sustainable farming practices in a sinking landscape oversaturated with fertilizers.
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Another perspective on the lawn, this time presenting a practical approach to the history, cultivation, and care of the green sward in America.
A man's turf : the perfect lawn
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Another perspective on the lawn, this time presenting a practical approach to the history, cultivation, and care of the green sward in America.
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March 1999, New York
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This book presents exhaustive documentation by ten contemporary Dutch landscape architectural practices comprising Annemieke Diekman, DS, Eker & Schaap, Juurlink & Geluk, Kaap 3, Parklaan, Studio I.S., Veenenbos & Bosch, Vista, and West 8.
Landscape : 9 + 1 young dutch landscape architects
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This book presents exhaustive documentation by ten contemporary Dutch landscape architectural practices comprising Annemieke Diekman, DS, Eker & Schaap, Juurlink & Geluk, Kaap 3, Parklaan, Studio I.S., Veenenbos & Bosch, Vista, and West 8.
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March 2000, Amsterdam
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Ancient Roman gardens
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Drawing upon information found in literature, frescoes, mosaics, and archeological research, Farrar traces the history of Roman gardens from the vegetable patch through to the sophisticated forms seen at the height of the Empire.
Ancient Roman gardens
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Drawing upon information found in literature, frescoes, mosaics, and archeological research, Farrar traces the history of Roman gardens from the vegetable patch through to the sophisticated forms seen at the height of the Empire.
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November 1998, Stroud
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Le fabuleux domaine privé de Villar Perosa, au nord de Turin, est l'un des secrets les mieux gardés d'Europe. Depuis plusieurs générations, les femmes de la famille Agnelli ont imaginé de merveilleux jardins, en les marquant de leurs personnalités respectives. L'auteur de ce livre s'est consacrée à transformer le domaine en un cadre prestigieux. Ses propres(...)
Les jardins Agnelli : l'histoire d'un domaine d'exception
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Le fabuleux domaine privé de Villar Perosa, au nord de Turin, est l'un des secrets les mieux gardés d'Europe. Depuis plusieurs générations, les femmes de la famille Agnelli ont imaginé de merveilleux jardins, en les marquant de leurs personnalités respectives. L'auteur de ce livre s'est consacrée à transformer le domaine en un cadre prestigieux. Ses propres photographies, prises tout au long de l'année, révèlent l'extraordinaire variété de styles de ce lieu merveilleux, du jardin classique à l'italienne, au jardin romantique rempli de fleurs sauvages, en passant par le jardin d'eau et le jardin de sculptures.
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October 1998, Genève
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Le jardin planétaire
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Du jardin des Lumières au jardin virtuel en passant par la flore latino-américaine, l'esthétique mediterranéenne, le paysage comme voyage, les témoins de ce livre - paysagistes, historiens, géographes, écrivains, urbanistes - nous font imaginer une approche des paysages de la planète avec l'attitude du jardinier dans son lopin devenu immense.
Le jardin planétaire
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Du jardin des Lumières au jardin virtuel en passant par la flore latino-américaine, l'esthétique mediterranéenne, le paysage comme voyage, les témoins de ce livre - paysagistes, historiens, géographes, écrivains, urbanistes - nous font imaginer une approche des paysages de la planète avec l'attitude du jardinier dans son lopin devenu immense.
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October 1997, Châteauvallon
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The last house
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The Last House brings together a selection of 60 tombs, little-known, small-scale interventions which demonstrate the wide variety of schemes designed by architects from the beginning of the(...)
The last house
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The Last House brings together a selection of 60 tombs, little-known, small-scale interventions which demonstrate the wide variety of schemes designed by architects from the beginning of the century until now. Tombs created by some of the masters of 20th-century architecture are shown, plus others by prestigious contemporary architects, as well as by younger architects on the current international scene.
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September 1998, Barcelona
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