Raxworthy, Julian, author.

Overgrown : practices between landscape architecture & gardening / Julian Raxworthy.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

xvii, 374 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and Gyorgy Kepes. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintainting. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way.

9780262038539 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262038536 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Landscape architecture.
Landscape gardening.
Gardens Design.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Architecture.
landscape gardening.
landscape architecture (discipline)
GARDENING Landscape.
Gartenkunst
Landschaftsarchitektur

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 303035
Cote: BIB 249231
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