Cooper, Guy.

Gardens for the future : gestures against the wild / Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.

New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.

223 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

"Gardens for the Future: Gestures Against the Wild examines new trends in landscape design at a moment when the possibilities of both public and private garden space are continually being redefined."
"The first half of the book focuses on recent developments in garden design: new aesthetic principles and materials, new functions and contexts. Artistic movements such as abstraction, conceptual art, minimalism, and land art present provocative visual precedents. Industrial and high-tech materials - chain-link fencing, artificial fog, plastics, fiber optics - share the stage with plants, which have themselves become the subject of exploration and innovation. The importance of the site, whether ecological, geological, or historical, is a significant influence on landscape architecture. And three twentieth-century garden designers - Luis Barragan, Isamu Noguchi, and Roberto Burle Marx - continue to inspire the evolution of contemporary landscape design."
"Twenty case studies illustrating these themes, accompanied by color photographs, plans, sketches, and models, comprise the second half of the book."--Jacket.

1580930638
9781580930635

Landscape architecture.
Gardens Design.
Gardens Pictorial works.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Architecture.
Jardins Ouvrages illustrés.
landscape gardening.
Gardens.

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Taylor, Gordon (Gordon I.)

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 212783
Cote: SB472.45 .C6 2000
Statut: Disponible