Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. Simmons' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto's most important gardens. Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using…
Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. Simmons' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto's most important gardens. Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using…
A short history of British Gardens -- Stowe: Lord Cobham's Georgian arcadia -- Biddulph Grange: James Bateman's Victorian world garden -- Nymans: The Messels' Edwardian rural retreat -- Great Dixter: Christopher Lloyds' provocative paradise.
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-makin…
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-makin…
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
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…
The unlikely story of how formal Italian Renaissance gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness.
"In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the 'anti-picturesque, ' offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt."--Jacket.
