Paradise transformed : the private garden for the twenty-first century / Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.

Main entry:

Cooper, Guy, author. aut

Title & Author:

Paradise transformed : the private garden for the twenty-first century / Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, [1996]
© 1996

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207).
Exploration. Robert Murase. Ian Hamilton Finlay. Richard Haag. Shodo Suzuki. Susan Child. Motoo Yoshimura. Charles Jencks & Maggie Keswick -- Innovation. V.J. Walker. Ludwig Gerns. Dean Cardasis. Chip Sullivan. Vladimir Sitta. Tom Oslund. Martha Schwartz -- Tradition. Dan Kiley. Fernando Caruncho. John Wong. Grissim/Metz. Gilles Clement. Jacques Wirtz -- Abstraction. Delaney & Cochran. Regina Pizzinini & Leon Luxemburg. Achva Benzinberg Stein. Ron Wigginton & Land Studio. Peter Walker. Kathryn Gustafson. George Hargreaves.

Summary:

The last two decades have seen a great explosion in the diversity, function, and beauty of modern landscape architecture. Private commissions have been the testing ground for the most radical experimentation. This first major survey of contemporary private gardens explores the imaginative ideas behind landscape design today. Almost fifty projects from more than twenty-five landscape architects worldwide are thoroughly documented here. Diversity characterizes each designer's work. The modernist aesthetic, translated from art and architecture - especially the strains of cubism, the International Style, postmodernism, minimalism, and Earth Art - gives form to a great number of the landscapes presented. Many designs have been equally influenced by the legacy of Luis Barragan, Isamu Noguchi, and Roberto Burle Marx. A consideration of the physical and social contexts is also evident in the designers' concern for the environment. The remarkable blend of projects in this volume captures contemporary landscape architecture at the moment when it signals what is to come in the twenty-first-century.

ISBN:

1885254350 (hc)
9781885254351 (hc)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Gardens Design.
Gardens Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening.
Arquitectura.
Jardínes Diseño.
Jardínes Obras ilustradas.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Architecture.
Jardins Ouvrages illustrés.
landscape gardening.
landscape architecture (discipline)
Gardens
Architecture des jardins.
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
tuinen
gardens
Landscape Architecture (General)
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Taylor, Gordon (Gordon I.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136160
Call No.: ID SB472.45.C66; ID:97-B947
Status: Available

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