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“100 projects by fifty of the world's most talented designers of public and private spaces . . . will expand your horizons and thrill the modernist in you.”—Metropolitan Home
Author : Tim Richardson
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780500288269
“100 projects by fifty of the world's most talented designers of public and private spaces . . . will expand your horizons and thrill the modernist in you.”—Metropolitan Home
Author : Thomas Powell
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Gardening
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Author : Tim Richardson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Landscape architects
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Gardening
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Author : Tim Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780500513934
In the past decade, garden and landscape design has witnessed a burgeoning of new ideas. The leading edge of recent garden design has not only embraced the latest thinking in science and materials, but has also appropriated ideas from related disciplines, such as architecture and product design, redefining and blurring the borders of nature and the man-made in the process. Plants, too, have been the source of surprising new expressions in avant-gardens, even if many practitioners are suspicious of horticulture's importance. One indication of the rise in popularity - and controversy - of these gardens has been the growing number of conceptual garden festivals, which have become the premier international showcases for new ideas. Avant Gardeners presents the fifty most exciting and innovative contemporary garden - and landscape - design practices from around the world, profiling the work of each designer through informative texts, photographs and plans. Topical essays explore the underlying principles of these highly individual approaches, and show how a rising generation has rejected the naturalistic tradition of Western garden design, favouring instead the influences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art and Land Art. Tim Richardson, one of the world's leading garden and landscape critics, brings a broad base of knowledge and an engaging style to the subject. With over 100 projects, the book is an encyclopaedic look at the most advanced contemporary thinking in garden design and offers an inspirational archive for practitioners and enthusiasts - indeed for anyone who delights in the great outdoors.
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Gardening
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Author : Thomas Powell
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780395204603
Author : Thomas Powell
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1975
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ISBN : 9780395205068
Author : Peter Lamborn Wilson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Community gardens
ISBN : 9781570270925
This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the Supermarket to the World ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others.
Author : Friederike Mayröcker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810119668
brütt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer’s love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer—a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are subordinate to the linguistic experiments that Friederike Mayröcker performs as she explores them. Mayröcker is known for crossing the boundaries of literary forms and in her prose work she creates a hypnotic, slurred narrative stream that is formally seamless while simultaneously overstepping all the bounds of grammar and style. She is always pushing to expose the limits of language and explore its experimental potential, seeking a re-ordering of the world through the re-ordering of words. Her multilayered texts are reminiscent of the traditions of Surrealism and Dadaism and display influences from the works of Beckett, Hölderlin, Freud, and Barthes. Yet, much of Mayrocker’s writing simply has no corollary and the experience of reading Roslyn Theobald’s brilliant translation grants the English-speaking audience an unforgettable encounter with this completely original work.