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The gardener labours to harmonize nature's most subtle forms with his or her own most elaborate plans. Gardens present a succession of ever-rephrased dialogues between nature and culture, design and delight, work and play. Yet they are also mutable and fragile, vulnerable to the rigors of the changing seasons. The most stimulating thought and research on the history(...)
The history of garden design : the Western tradition from the Renaissance to the present day
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The gardener labours to harmonize nature's most subtle forms with his or her own most elaborate plans. Gardens present a succession of ever-rephrased dialogues between nature and culture, design and delight, work and play. Yet they are also mutable and fragile, vulnerable to the rigors of the changing seasons. The most stimulating thought and research on the history of the garden from the fifteenth century to the present day are organized chronologically here in sections that cover the humanist garden in Renaissance Italy; the Baroque garden and classical park; picturesque, arcadian, and sublime gardens of the Enlightenment; mazes, grottoes, and other curiosities; town and city parks; and even Disneyland. In each section, individual gardens are analyzed as paradigms of their type: the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg, the Parc Monceau in Paris, Stowe in England, and many others, including contemporary gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Geoffrey Jellicoe. Many hitherto unrecorded examples are detailed, and well-known aspects of the history of the garden are reinterpreted from totally new perspectives. The essays are supported by paintings, reliefs, and drawings as well as figurative illustrations and photographs. A specially commissioned series of fifty-one plans of each epoch's most significant gardens completes this survey of the evolution of the Western garden.
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The heem parks (parks that predominately feature native wild plants) De Braak, the K. Landwehrpark and, especially, the Jac.P. Thijsse Park in Amstelveen in the Netherlands, have been important sources of inspiration for landscape architects, gardeners, and nature lovers throughout the world since they were first laid out over fifty years ago. This new book looks at the(...)
Jac. P. Thijsse Park : designed Dutch landscape
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The heem parks (parks that predominately feature native wild plants) De Braak, the K. Landwehrpark and, especially, the Jac.P. Thijsse Park in Amstelveen in the Netherlands, have been important sources of inspiration for landscape architects, gardeners, and nature lovers throughout the world since they were first laid out over fifty years ago. This new book looks at the extraordinary history of these parks and the work of the landscape architect Christiaan Broerse and his colleague, the botanist Koos Landwehr. It also details Broerse and Landwehr’s creative and highly original use of a great variety of native plants in these parks. Bekkers analyses the parks as integral elements of Amsterdam’s urban expansion plans and demonstrates how successfully Broerse and Landwehr resolved the tension between the conservation movement and city planners. He shows too how interest in the Amstelveen heem parks have grown over time. These parks have played a key role, for instance, in the increasing emphasis on the use of native plants in the layout of green areas. The book is richly illustrated, with specially commissioned full-colour photographs by Jan Derwig and aerial photographs by Jan Schot. Also included are historical illustrations and sketches.
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Vision poétique des jardins de Versailles sous l'oeil d'un photographe nous restituant les lieux essentiels aux différentes saisons : découverte des jardins, statues, façades, fontaines et bassins dans une grand variété de teintes et de lumières.
Versailles, côté jardins : chronique
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Vision poétique des jardins de Versailles sous l'oeil d'un photographe nous restituant les lieux essentiels aux différentes saisons : découverte des jardins, statues, façades, fontaines et bassins dans une grand variété de teintes et de lumières.
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Le paysagisme bénéficie aujourd'hui d'un regain d'intérêt et sucite des attentes iportantes. Il incarne notamment l'espoir de réunir le caractère fonctionnel d'une étude à sa portée artistique et à sa dimension sensible. On attend de lui qu'il satisfasse le grand public tout en conservant sa crédibilité conceptuelle. Enfin, le paysagisme doit faire face aux exigences(...)
Changement de décor : le paysage contemporain en Europe
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Le paysagisme bénéficie aujourd'hui d'un regain d'intérêt et sucite des attentes iportantes. Il incarne notamment l'espoir de réunir le caractère fonctionnel d'une étude à sa portée artistique et à sa dimension sensible. On attend de lui qu'il satisfasse le grand public tout en conservant sa crédibilité conceptuelle. Enfin, le paysagisme doit faire face aux exigences de l'intégration sociale. Les travaux présentés dans cet ouvrage, réalisés par des paysagistes originaires de huit pays, illustrent la grande diversité du paysage contemporain en Europe. Aux interventions classiques - jardins, cours, places et parcs - s'ajoutent des projets qui témoignent de la collaboration avec d'autres disciplines, des vastes aménagements destinés aux nouveaux transports jusqu'à la reconversion de friches industrielles, en passant par l'art de la vidéo et, naturellement, la confrontation incessante et fructueuse avec l'architecture. L'ouvrage de Thies Schröder montre que nous nous trouvons à un moment clé de l'histoire du paysagisme européen et témoigne peut-être d'une nouvelle approche : la justesse historique et environnementale d'un aménagement fait progressivement place à la simple réalité des modes de vie urbain, avec leur impact direct sur la nature. Supports de fonctionnalités concrètes et de visions abstraites, les paysages et les jardins servent de relai entre la nature et l'art.
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"Shallow Water Dictionary" is both a celebration of the richness of our vernacular language and a lament on its passing - and with it, the passing of the words we need to understand our shallow water regions, once the primary landscape of America and now facing extinction, both physical and linguistic. This small book is an intriguing and valuable addition to our(...)
Shallow water dictionary
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"Shallow Water Dictionary" is both a celebration of the richness of our vernacular language and a lament on its passing - and with it, the passing of the words we need to understand our shallow water regions, once the primary landscape of America and now facing extinction, both physical and linguistic. This small book is an intriguing and valuable addition to our knowledge of a changing landscape. Literary, etymological, historical, and vernacular investigations of such varied terms as "guzzle," "creek," and "chartreuse," Stilgoe's definitions are lyric explanations of words whose original meanings have been eroded by time.
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Constituant un panorama de l'art européen du jardin, "Jardins d'aujourd'hui en Europe : entre art et architecture" révèle les multiples influences historiques, artistiques, architecturales, scientifiques, technologiques et esthétiques qui ont contribué à façonner les paysages les plus marquants de notre époque. Un index, un glossaire et une bibliographie complètent cet(...)
Jardins d'aujourd'hui en Europe : entre art et architecture
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Constituant un panorama de l'art européen du jardin, "Jardins d'aujourd'hui en Europe : entre art et architecture" révèle les multiples influences historiques, artistiques, architecturales, scientifiques, technologiques et esthétiques qui ont contribué à façonner les paysages les plus marquants de notre époque. Un index, un glossaire et une bibliographie complètent cet ouvrage abondamment illustré.
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In these pages, Chinese gardens unfold as cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world and of humanity's place in it. Keswick conducts us through the art and architecture, the principles and techniques of Chinese gardens, showing their long history as the background for a civilization. Updated and expanded, this third edition, with an(...)
The Chinese garden : history, art and architecture
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In these pages, Chinese gardens unfold as cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world and of humanity's place in it. Keswick conducts us through the art and architecture, the principles and techniques of Chinese gardens, showing their long history as the background for a civilization. Updated and expanded, this third edition, with an introduction by Alison Hardie, includes many new illustrations, and an updated list of gardens in China accessible to visitors.
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This new collection of photographs taken across the American landscape reflects MacLean's interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities.
Designs on the land : exploring America from the air
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This new collection of photographs taken across the American landscape reflects MacLean's interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities.
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Garden design in the twentieth century ranges from Victorian-era examples to the age of Land Art. This span results in an extraordinarily varied survey—from Europe to South America, from Japan to the United States—including work by garden and landscape designers whose names are familiar to both lovers and scholars of the modern garden: Robinson, Jekyll, Jensen, Farrand,(...)
Modern garden design : innovation since 1900
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Garden design in the twentieth century ranges from Victorian-era examples to the age of Land Art. This span results in an extraordinarily varied survey—from Europe to South America, from Japan to the United States—including work by garden and landscape designers whose names are familiar to both lovers and scholars of the modern garden: Robinson, Jekyll, Jensen, Farrand, Sessions, Mawson, Church, Sørensen, and Jellicoe. Janet Waymark traces the revolutionary changes brought about in the postwar period by the Harvard Rebels—Eckbo, Rose, and Kiley—and examines the impact of Noguchi, Burle Marx, Barragán, and others, as well as the powerful international influence of Scandinavian landscape architects and designers. The garden city is also given close attention, from its beginnings in late Victorian Britain, through the Greenbelt Towns in the American Midwest, to the latest regeneration of urban centers worldwide. A long line of artists and architects of international renown have earned a place in the history of the modern garden: Monet, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Gaudí, among others. Land artists, such as Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Patricia Johanson, and Kathryn Gustafson in America and Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the UK, have brought new ways of thinking about landscape and the garden into the twenty-first century.
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"Last Landscapes" is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed ‘cities of the dead’, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature(...)
Last landscapes : the architecture of the cemetery in the west
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"Last Landscapes" is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed ‘cities of the dead’, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature in this book include the war cemeteries of northern France, Viking burial islands in central Sweden, Etruscan tombs and early Christian catacombs in Italy, the 17th-century Portuguese–Jewish cemetery 'Beth Haim' at Ouderkerk in the Netherlands, Forest Lawns in California, Derek Jarman’s garden in Kent and the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery. It is a fact that architecture ‘began with the tomb', yet, as Ken Worpole shows us in Last Landscapes, many historic cemeteries have been demolished or abandoned in recent times (notably the case with Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe), and there has been an increasing loss of inscription and memorialization in the modern urban cemetery. Too often cemeteries today are both poorly designed and physically and culturally marginalized. Worse, cremation denies a full architectural response to the mystery and solemnity of death. The author explores how modes of disposal – burial, cremation, inhumation in mausoleums and wall tombs – vary across Europe and North America, according to religious and other cultural influences. And Last Landscapes raises profound questions as to how, in an age of mass cremation, architects and landscape designers might create meaningful structures and settings in the absence of a body, since for most of history the human body itself has provided the fundamental structural scale. This evocative book also contemplates other forms of memorialization within modern societies, from sculptures to parks, most notably the extraordinary Duisberg Park, set in a former giant steelworks in Germany’s Ruhr Valley.
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