Modern Garden Design: Innovation Sinc: Innovation Since 1900 - Hardcover

Waymark, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500511128 ISBN 13: 9780500511121

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Gardens in the 20th century reach back into the Victorian era and forward into the age of Land Art. This survey, from Europe to South America, and Japan to the US, takes in many familiar designers including Robinson, Jekyll, Jensen, Farrand, Sessions, Mawson, Church, Sorenson and Jellicoe. The book traces the revolutionary post-war period - the Harvard rebels, Eckbo, Rose and Kily; Noguchi, Burle Marx and Barragan - and the powerful influence of the Scandinavian landscape designers. The garden city is given close attention, from late Victorian Britain, through the Greenbelt Towns in the American Midwest, to the latest regeneration of urban centres worldwide. Notable artists and architects also feature here: Monet, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gaudi among others. Land artists have brought landscape and the garden into the 21st century and include Robert Smithson and Kathryn Gustafson in the US, and Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the UK.

About this title

Review:

"'As a contribution to the literature of garden and landscape design history, Modern Garden Design is an invaluable addition. Waymark informs, educates and connects... a volume to enjoy and to inspire' - Landscape Design"

About the Author:

Janet Waymark is Lecturer in Garden History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She holds a number of degrees and awards, notably from the London School of Economics, Birkbeck College - where she was awarded her doctorate in historical geography - and the Architectural Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0500511128
• ISBN 13: 9780500511121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256