Poetics of Gardens

Name: Poetics of Gardens
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ISBN: 9780262631532

ISBN-10: 0262631539

ISBN-13: 9780262631532

Edition: 1993

Authors: Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, William Turnbull

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This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. Charles W. Moore, one of America's best-known architects, is O'Neil Ford Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. William J. Mitchell is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, and Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William Turnbull, Jr., is Principal of William Turnbull Associates, San Francisco.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/13/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Genius of the Place


Shan and Shui


God and Cain


Sunlight and Shadow


Memory and Expectation



The Designer's Place


Occupying the Site


Establishing the Game


Shaping Spaces


Creating Climates


Lending Life



The Place of the Past


Settings


Uluru


Ryoan-ji


Capability Brown's Parks


Isola Bella


Bali


Collections


Death Valley


The Collections of Three Kingdoms


The Summer Palace


Katsura Imperial Villa


Sissinghurst


Some Botanical Gardens


Pilgrimages


Amarnath


Lamayuru


Rousham


Stourhead


The Villa Lante


City Gardens: Isfahan and Beijing


Patterns


The Symmetries of the Ram Bagh


The Waters of Kashmir


Shalamar Bagh


Nishat Bagh


Mughul Tomb Gardens


The Alhambra


The Generalife


Vaux-le-Vicomte


Studley Royal



Our Own Places


Paradise Replayed


Bigger Patterns


Swifter Pilgrimages


Costlier Collections


Simpler Settings


Edens to Order


Amerikanergarten Chats


Courtyards


Front Yards


Backyards


Side Yards


Graveyards


Bibliography


Index