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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11766290.
- catalog contributor b11766291.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""Twenty case studies illustrating these themes, accompanied by color photographs, plans, sketches, and models, comprise the second half of the book."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Case studies : Robert Irwin -- Douglas Reed -- Daniel Libeskind -- Ton ter Linden -- Thomas Balsley -- Ted Smyth -- Desvigne & Dalnoky -- Rios Associates -- Charles Jencks -- Jacques Wirtz -- Jack Lenor Larsen -- Arata Isozaki -- Raymond Jungles -- Kathryn Gustafson -- Fernando Caruncho -- Walter Beck and Lester Collins -- T. Delaney & Co. -- George Hargreaves -- Daniel Urban Kiley -- D.A.ST. Art Team.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222).".
- catalog extent "223 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Gardens for the future.".
- catalog identifier "1580930638".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gardens for the future.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Monacelli Press,".
- catalog relation "Gardens for the future.".
- catalog subject "Gardens Design.".
- catalog subject "Gardens Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture.".
- catalog subject "SB472.45 .C65 2000X".
- catalog tableOfContents "Case studies : Robert Irwin -- Douglas Reed -- Daniel Libeskind -- Ton ter Linden -- Thomas Balsley -- Ted Smyth -- Desvigne & Dalnoky -- Rios Associates -- Charles Jencks -- Jacques Wirtz -- Jack Lenor Larsen -- Arata Isozaki -- Raymond Jungles -- Kathryn Gustafson -- Fernando Caruncho -- Walter Beck and Lester Collins -- T. Delaney & Co. -- George Hargreaves -- Daniel Urban Kiley -- D.A.ST. Art Team.".
- catalog title "Gardens for the future : gestures against the wild / Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".