Gardens for the future : gestures against the wild / Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.

Main entry:

Cooper, Guy.

Title & Author:

Gardens for the future : gestures against the wild / Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.

Description:

223 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222).
Case studies : Robert Irwin -- Douglas Reed -- Daniel Libeskind -- Ton ter Linden -- Thomas Balsley -- Ted Smyth -- Desvigne & Dalnoky -- Rios Associates -- Charles Jencks -- Jacques Wirtz -- Jack Lenor Larsen -- Arata Isozaki -- Raymond Jungles -- Kathryn Gustafson -- Fernando Caruncho -- Walter Beck and Lester Collins -- T. Delaney & Co. -- George Hargreaves -- Daniel Urban Kiley -- D.A. ST. Art Team.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Gardens for the Future: Gestures Against the Wild examines new trends in landscape design at a moment when the possibilities of both public and private garden space are continually being redefined."
"The first half of the book focuses on recent developments in garden design: new aesthetic principles and materials, new functions and contexts. Artistic movements such as abstraction, conceptual art, minimalism, and land art present provocative visual precedents. Industrial and high-tech materials - chain-link fencing, artificial fog, plastics, fiber optics - share the stage with plants, which have themselves become the subject of exploration and innovation. The importance of the site, whether ecological, geological, or historical, is a significant influence on landscape architecture. And three twentieth-century garden designers - Luis Barragan, Isamu Noguchi, and Roberto Burle Marx - continue to inspire the evolution of contemporary landscape design."
"Twenty case studies illustrating these themes, accompanied by color photographs, plans, sketches, and models, comprise the second half of the book."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1580930638
9781580930635

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Gardens Design.
Gardens Pictorial works.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Architecture.
Jardins Ouvrages illustrés.
landscape gardening.
Gardens.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Taylor, Gordon (Gordon I.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212783
Call No.: SB472.45 .C6 2000
Status: Available

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