Main entry:

Hill, Penelope.

Title & Author:

Contemporary history of garden design : European gardens between art and architecture / Penelope Hill.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2004.

Description:

261 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Jardins d'aujourd'hui en Europe, entre art et architecture.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-261) and index.
Setting the scene -- New designs on classic themes -- Architecture and the landscape -- The vertical garden -- Leaping the fence -- The planting revolution -- Art and the garden -- The contemporary garden as art -- Forums for the future.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Providing at once a vast panorama and a profound analysis of contemporary European garden art, this volume reveals the multiple historical, artistic, architectural, scientific, technological and aesthetic influences that have contributed to the horticultural masterpieces of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book shows how in the field of garden design, the use of new materials, the influence of ecology and art as well as town planning have brought about a break with tradition, and how new goals are emerging."--Jacket.

ISBN:

376437117X (alk. paper)
9783764371173 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens Europe Design History 20th century.
Gardens, European History 20th century.
Landscape architecture Europe History 20th century.
Jardins Architecture Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Jardins européens Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture du paysage Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Gardens Design.
Gardens, European.
Landscape architecture.
Gartenkunst
Tuinarchitectuur.
Gartenkunst Europa.
Gardens Europe Design.
Landscape architecture Europe.
Europe.
Europa
Europa Gartenkunst.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233404
Call No.: SB466.E9 H5613 2004
Status: Available