Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (29th : 2005) Dumbarton Oaks.

Title & Author:

Contemporary garden aesthetics, creations and interpretations / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, 2007. ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor]

Description:

265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Jacky Bowring is a New Zealand author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In defiance of the institutional art world / Michel Bonan -- "When art is a garden-Benny Farm by Claude Cormier" / Susan Herrington -- "The re-enchantment of the Maegaki residence by Mirei Shigemori" / Christian Tschumi -- "Culture, tradition and contemporary Indian landscape design: Mohammed Shaheer at Sanskriti Kendra" / Priyaleen Singh -- "The garden as the last luxury today: thought provoking garden projects by Dieter Kienast (1945-1998)" / Udo Weilacher -- "The Colas gardens by Bernard Lassus: coming to terms with fleeting encounters in a decentered world" / Michel Coanan -- "Echoes of paradise: Fernando Chacel's gardens in the coastal plain of Jacarepagua" / Peter Jacobs -- "Walking through the crossing: the draw at Sugar House Park by Patricia Johanson" / Xin Wu -- "The garden at Portrack designed and created by Charles Jencks (1986-2004): entrapment and release" / Michael Spens -- "To make the stone[s] stony: defamiliarisation and Andy Goldsworthy's garden of stone" / Jacky Bowring -- Cardada by Peolo Burgi: the experience of the Gaze" / by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo -- "The planetary garden, garden unknown: on the work of landscaper Gilles Clement" / Jacques Leenhardt -- "A 'garden of the Hesperides': the landscape initiative of the Musee Gassendi, Digne, and the National Park of Alpes de Haute-Provence" / Stephen Bann.

Summary:

Using a variety of critical perspectives, this text demonstrates a renewal of garden design and directions for garden aesthetics, analysing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.) and Bernard Lassus (France).

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780884023258 (pbk.)
0884023257 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens Design Congresses.
Landscape architecture Congresses.
Jardins Architecture Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Congrès.
gardens.
landscaping.
Gardens Design
Landscape architecture
Trädgårdar design konferenser.
Landskapsarkitektur konferenser.
Contemporary garden aesthetics
tuinen
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
ontwerp
design
interpretatie
interpretation
omgevingspsychologie
environmental psychology
Gardens
Tuinen

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, 1939-
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; 29.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252155
Call No.: SB472.45 .D86 2005
Status: Available