Main entry:

Davidsen, Dana, author.

Title & Author:

Beyond the garden : designing home landscapes with natural systems / Dana Davidsen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

221 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Introduction: A call to coauthorship, Timothy A. Schuler -- 1. Engaging Natural Systems -- Amplifying the Ecotone: Integrating Site Systems -- A Symbiotic System: Channeling Stormwater in the High Desert -- Tracing Terrain: Engaging Surface Character for Groundwater Recharge -- Recovering Site Character: Recycling Stone in Santa Barbara -- Wildness, in Context: The Anti-Garden and the Paradox of Rewilding -- 2. Restoration and Conservation -- Restoring Lost Ecologies: Historic Preservation in Coastal Acadia -- Tending the Native Garden: Beneficial Disturbances in Ecologicla Gardening -- A Seamless Connection: Mediating Boundaries at the Urban-Wildland Interface -- Oaks and the Arroyo: Designing for Scale and Continuity in the San Gabriel -- 3. Building Biodiversity -- The Garden after the Storm: Designing for Beauty and Resiliency in the Florida Keys -- A Desert Vernacular: Designing with Walls, Shadows, and Native Plants -- A Wind-Swept Meadow above the Canopy: Building Urban Habitat with Green Roofs -- The Botanical Landscape: A Specimen Garden in the Chaparral -- 4. Environmental Stewardship -- Relating to the Land: An Exploration of Soil, Composition, and Form -- A Landscape, Balanced: Restraint and Minimalism in Southern California -- A Bold and Evolving Vignette: Planting in Communities for Beauty and Longevity -- When to Do Nothing: Evolution and Adaptation in the Garden -- The Vertical Landscape: The Impact of Planting in a Small Space

Summary:

This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects. Through twenty distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-concious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door

ISBN:

9781616899073 (hardcover)
1616899077 (hardcover)
9781648962011 (electronic book)
1648962017 (electronic book)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Landscape architecture Philosophy.
Landscape architecture Designs and plans.
Architecture.
Landscapes.
Sustainable living.
Architecture du paysage.
Architecture du paysage Philosophie.
Architecture du paysage Dessins et plans.
Paysages.
Style de vie durable.
landscape architecture (discipline)
architecture (discipline)
landscapes (environments)
ARCHITECTURE Landscape.
GARDENING Techniques.
HOUSE & HOME Sustainable Living.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Architectural drawings
Fiction.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316761
Call No.: 316761
Copy: 1
Status: Available