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The Oxford Companion to the Garden by Patrick Taylor (Editor)
This sumptuous new Oxford Companion is devoted to gardens of every kind and the people and ideas involved in their making, in every part of the world where the designed landscape has played an important part.Its broad sweep makes this the perfect reference for garden-lovers everywhere. It combines a survey of the world's gardens, biographies of garden designers, nurserymen, and others, and entries on the worlds of horticulture and plantsmanship, with articles on a range of topics from garden visiting togarden elements and styles, and from scientific issues to the social history of gardens.The Companion provides comprehensive coverage in 1750 alphabetical entries, detailing all aspects of the garden from the ancient to the avant garde. The writing is authoritative and engaging, with careful attention paid to the correct naming of plants, and a central aim of giving a vivid impressionof what it is like to be in these inspirational gardens. There are sumptuous colour photographs by some of the world's best garden photographers, and elegant engravings of historical subjects. Well over half of the entries are devoted to individual gardens, many of them open to the public.Theseinclude every kind of garden from palace gardens such as Versailles to private gardens of outstanding design or plant interest, public gardens, botanic gardens and arboreta, late 20th-century land art, and contemporary gardens everywhere. Central to the book are the garden cultures of Italy,Britain, France, China, Japan, and the USA - unquestionably the most significant in the world - but the geographical coverage is worldwide, including such far-flung regions as Turkey, Peru, and Bali. The Companion draws on some of the expertise from The Oxford Companion to Garden s (1986) - inparticular the late Maggie Keswick's groundbreaking writing on Chinese gardens.The international team of advisory editors and contributors includes leading authorities and top garden writers from more than 25 countries around the world. Many of the entries include suggestions for further reading and the work's usefulness is further enhanced by a general bibliography, athematic listing of contents, and an index of gardens, individuals, themes, and features.
ISBN: 9780198662556
Publication Date: 2006
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Avant Gardeners by Tim Richardson; Martha Schwartz (Foreword by)
'Avant Gardeners' profiles 50 of the most exciting contemporary landscape practices from around the world. With case studies for each designer, it presents an encyclopaedic look at the most advanced thinking in garden design and offers a rich archive for practitioners and enthusiasts alike.
Publication Date: 2008
Landscape Design by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
People have shaped the landscape around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City of Beijing, Versailles, and New York's Central Park. Overflowing with hundreds of plans, drawings, and photographs, many created specially for this book, this engrossing volume spans the history of landscape design and reveals a great deal about the development of societies, and how cities, parks, and gardens embody cultural values.Examining famous and lesser-known sites, some now vanished, this comprehensive survey leads the reader from ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries to the magnificent gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Europe, and from great 18th-century English estates and American public gardens to the earthworks and other landscape projects of today.A feast for the historian, landscape designer, and gardener alike, this new book has no equal.
Publication Date: 2001
Shaping the American Landscape by Charles A. Birnbaum (Editor); Stephanie S. Foell (Editor)
Shaping the American Landscape explores the lives and work of 151 professionals who quite literally shaped both the land itself and our ideas of what the American landscape means. Although the contributors consider many important figures from the past, the book breaks new ground by including seminal designers who are in their twilight years, and in some cases still professionally active, to provide a fascinating look at the modern era of design in action. The roster of profiles extends far beyond landscape architects to encompass professionals in many other fields, including planning, journalism, gardening, and golf course and cemetery design. The authors seek not only to bring their subjects' design legacies to light, but also to instill a sense of stewardship for historically meaningful examples of their art. Across North America, key works in landscape design--from M. Paul Friedberg's Riis Plaza Park in New York to Dan Kiley's Nationsbank Plaza in Tampa--have already disappeared. Other iconic works, although still extant, face serious threats of demolition. Shaping the American Landscape identifies a host of public spaces deserving of recognition, and sheds light on the process by which they may be protected. Organized in an accessible, encyclopedic format, Shaping the American Landscape is an indispensable reference work that may also be read simply for the pleasure of discovery. Many readers will want to go beyond the page and personally experience some of the landscapes described here. A generous selection of illustrations, together with a list of surviving landscape sites accessible to the public, brings both the subjects and their art to life.
Publication Date: 2009
Dictionary of Today's Landscape Designers by
This dictionary profiles leading figures whose have given rise to a new dimension in designing the cityscape.
Publication Date: 2003
Encyclopedia of Gardens by Publication Date: 2001
Influential Gardeners: The Designers Who Shaped 20th-century Garden Style by Publication Date: 2002
Pioneers of American Landscape Design by
This work contains 140 entries representing the key figures in American landscape architecture, each accompanied by biographical material, discussion of design approach and methodology, representative plans and photographs of major plans.
Publication Date: 2000
The School in a Garden by Publication Date: 2000
