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Encompassed by this publication is a project to map, engage, reimagine and investigate design, research and practice in landscape architecture. Aside from seeking the relationship between academic and practical approaches, it asks whether the design process can also be research in producing work that is exemplary in dealing with the complexities of the discipline. Evident(...)
Exposure: design research in landscape architecture
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Encompassed by this publication is a project to map, engage, reimagine and investigate design, research and practice in landscape architecture. Aside from seeking the relationship between academic and practical approaches, it asks whether the design process can also be research in producing work that is exemplary in dealing with the complexities of the discipline. Evident is the existence of tension between pragmatics, performance and social position in approaches to design in landscape architecture.
Gardens
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In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on a journey through exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts — revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs.
Zen landscapes : perspectives on Japanese gardens and ceramics
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In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on a journey through exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts — revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs.
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Overleaf is a celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree. It features over seventy rendered studies of the leaves of thirty-seven tree species found across North America and Europe.
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In his first book in ten years, Franco Maria Ricci presents a collection of photographs celebrating the art and mystery of mazes throughout the ages. Franco Maria Ricci -publisher, art collector, bibliophile, garden designer, visionary - presents this collection of beautiful, haunting photographs chronicling his latest project: a massive bamboo labyrinth near(...)
Labyrinths : the art of the maze
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In his first book in ten years, Franco Maria Ricci presents a collection of photographs celebrating the art and mystery of mazes throughout the ages. Franco Maria Ricci -publisher, art collector, bibliophile, garden designer, visionary - presents this collection of beautiful, haunting photographs chronicling his latest project: a massive bamboo labyrinth near Fontanellato, Italy, scheduled to open in 2014.
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Deco rooms with plants
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This good-humored, relentlessly fresh guide to using plants in any home comes from Satoshi Kawamoto, the garden stylist behind Green Fingers, a mini-chain of home and garden shops in Tokyo. To Kawamoto-san, any empty space in any home — no matter how small — is the perfect place for a plant: kitchen, bedroom, entry, bathroom, an unused shoe.
Deco rooms with plants
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This good-humored, relentlessly fresh guide to using plants in any home comes from Satoshi Kawamoto, the garden stylist behind Green Fingers, a mini-chain of home and garden shops in Tokyo. To Kawamoto-san, any empty space in any home — no matter how small — is the perfect place for a plant: kitchen, bedroom, entry, bathroom, an unused shoe.
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Weeds of North America
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“What is a weed,” opined Emerson, “but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?” While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root, weeds compete for resources, and most often win. Richard Dickinson and France Royer shed light on this complex world with(...)
Weeds of North America
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“What is a weed,” opined Emerson, “but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?” While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root, weeds compete for resources, and most often win. Richard Dickinson and France Royer shed light on this complex world with Weeds of North America.
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Edward Bawden's Kew gardens
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Based on Edward Bawden’s evocative period illustrations, posters, and linocuts, this book brings to life Kew Gardens, the 300-acre site just outside London that encompasses a world-renowned botanical garden, Kew Palace, and much more, all open to the public. Offering a lighthearted social history of Kew, peopled with the many royals who lived at or visited Kew, this is a(...)
Edward Bawden's Kew gardens
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Based on Edward Bawden’s evocative period illustrations, posters, and linocuts, this book brings to life Kew Gardens, the 300-acre site just outside London that encompasses a world-renowned botanical garden, Kew Palace, and much more, all open to the public. Offering a lighthearted social history of Kew, peopled with the many royals who lived at or visited Kew, this is a colorful portrait of a time gone by.
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Japanese zen garden
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This book explores the Zen characteristics of these gardens, and discusses the impact Zen Buddhism has had on the Japanese way of looking at the natural world. The book considers how these gardens can be seen as artistic representations of Zen consciousness, reflecting the longing for religious enlightenment.
Japanese zen garden
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This book explores the Zen characteristics of these gardens, and discusses the impact Zen Buddhism has had on the Japanese way of looking at the natural world. The book considers how these gardens can be seen as artistic representations of Zen consciousness, reflecting the longing for religious enlightenment.
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February 2014
Gardens
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In Private Landscapes, landscape architect Pamela Burton and interior designer Marie Botnick profile twenty significant gardens, and their accompanying houses, by celebrated architects of mid century modernism, including Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, A. Quincy Jones, and John Lautner.
Private landscapes : Modernist gardens in Southern California
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In Private Landscapes, landscape architect Pamela Burton and interior designer Marie Botnick profile twenty significant gardens, and their accompanying houses, by celebrated architects of mid century modernism, including Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, A. Quincy Jones, and John Lautner.
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Covering 630 species, Trees of Western North America presents all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and Canada as far east as the Great Plains. The book features superior descriptions; thousands of meticulous color paintings by David More that illustrate important visual details; range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each(...)
Trees of Western North America
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Covering 630 species, Trees of Western North America presents all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and Canada as far east as the Great Plains. The book features superior descriptions; thousands of meticulous color paintings by David More that illustrate important visual details; range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each native species; "Quick ID" summaries; a user-friendly layout; scientific and common names; the latest taxonomy; information on the most recently naturalized species; a key to leaves; and an introduction to tree identification, forest ecology, and plant classification and structure.
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