"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, Ann…
"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, Ann…
"In its efforts to gain professional standing, the discipline of landscape architecture has chosen to sever itself from its roots in gardening; it has literally drawn itself into a corner. This book argues that the tradition of gardening is an essential element of the practice o…
Introduction -- The persistence of a line -- Architecture with plants -- Changing rooms -- A moving work of art -- Marginalia -- Wait and see -- Conclusion: a manifesto for the viridic
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. 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,…
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…