Garden and metaphor : essays on the essence of the garden / edited by Ana Kučan and Mateja Kurir ; with photographs by Anne Schwalbe

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2024]
© 2024

320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency.00In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for.

9783035626551 hardcover
3035626553 hardcover
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Landscape architecture.
Gardens Philosophy.
Gardens Social aspects.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Philosophie.
Jardins Aspect social.
landscape architecture (discipline)

Kučan, Ana, 1964-
Kurir, Mateja.
Schwalbe, Anne photographer

Location: Library main 319228
Call No.: 319228
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