Main entry:

Turner, Tom (Thomas Henry Duke), 1946-

Title & Author:

European gardens : history, philosophy and design / Tom Turner.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.

Description:

x, 411 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-403) and index.
Design philosophy -- Garden origins 10,000-1,000 BCE -- Egyptian gardens 2000 BCE-1000 BCE -- Classical gardens 1400 BCE-500 CE -- Medieval gardens 600 AD-1500 -- Renaissance gardens 1350-1650 -- Baroque gardens 1600-1750 -- Neoclassical and romantic gardens 1700-1810 -- Eclectic gardens 1800-1900 -- Abstract and post-abstract gardens 1900-2000.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Tom Turner's systematic history of European garden design uses almost 900 photographs, plans and style diagrams to explain, when, why and how European gardens were designed. With a focus on beliefs, functions and design philosophy, he covers the period from the origin of cultivation and settlement in the Fertile Crescent to garden design trends in 2011. The 10,000 years covered are split into ten sections giving detailed information on the main periods in the history of European garden design.
10,000 years ago, Europe was wooded, swampy and sparsely populated by nomadic hunter-gatherers. Neolithic techniques of cultivation and settlement spread north and west through the millennia, changing as they encountered different environmental and cultural conditions. European Gardens begins with the separate histories of domestic gardens, sacred gardens and palace gardens. The distinctions survived in Ancient Greece but converged in Italy, resulting in types of space not unlike modern gardens being made throughout the Roman Empire. The most intense period of garden making, linked with art and architecture, was from the Renaissance to the present day.
This is the second of Turner's books dealing with the history of garden design following on from Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design (published by Routledge in 2010). European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design is an expanded version of the original Garden History book, published in 2005. It features new illustrations and additional text. Further details of all the gardens are available on the gardenvisit.com website, which the author edits. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9780415496841 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415496845 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens Europe History.
Gardens, European History.
Jardins européens Histoire.
Gardens.
Gardens, European.
Garten
Gartengestaltung
Europe.
Europa

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277982
Call No.: BIB 213267
Status: Available