The garden of cosmic speculation / Charles Jencks.

Main entry:

Jencks, Charles.

Title & Author:

The garden of cosmic speculation / Charles Jencks.

Publication:

London : Frances Lincoln, 2003.

Description:

256 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Three stories of a garden -- The creation of a garden -- Where is the universe going? -- The no-place of death -- The six senses get their DNA -- Ultimate metaphors -- The universe cascade -- Tantalizing speculation.

Summary:

"Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0711222169
9780711222168
0711225389
9780711225381

Subject:

Jencks, Charles.
Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
Gardens Scotland Dumfriesshire Design.
Landscape architecture Scotland Dumfriesshire.
Jardins Écosse Dumfriesshire Conception et construction.
Jardins Architecture Écosse Dumfriesshire.
Gardens Design.
Landscape architecture.
Gartengestaltung
Landschaftsplanung
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Tuinen.
Scotland Dumfriesshire.
Dumfries (County)
American architectural historians.
American architects.
American architectural critics.
Gardens Great Britain Scotland Dumfriesshire 1990-2010.
Landscape architecture Great Britain Scotland Dumfriesshire 1990-2010.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228862
Call No.: NA44.J51.A35 2003
Status: Available

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