Christopher Tunnard / Gardens in the Modern Landscape Facsimile of the Revised

Description: Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) Author: Christopher Tunnard Title: Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) Publication: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Description: Paperback. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and B&W photographs and diagrams. 184 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a new technique in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. The functional garden avoids the extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden and the intellectual classicism of the 'formal' garden, he wrote; it embodies rather a spirit of rationalism and through an aesthetic and practical ordering of its units provides a friendly and hospitable milieu for rest and recreation. Tunnard's magazine pieces were republished in book form as Gardens in the Modern Landscape in 1938, and a revised second edition was issued a decade later. Taken together, these articles constituted a manifesto for the modern garden, its influence evident in the work of such figures as Lawrence Halprin, Philip Johnson, and Edward Larrabee Barnes. Long out of print, the book is here reissued in a facsimile of the 1948 edition, accompanied by a contextualizing foreword by John Dixon Hunt. Gardens in the Modern Landscape heralded a sea change in the evolution of twentieth-century design, and it also anticipated questions of urban sprawl, historic preservation, and the dynamic between the natural and built environments. Available once more to students, practitioners, and connoisseurs, it stands as a historical document and an invitation to continued innovative thought about landscape architecture.. Seller ID: 2370 Subject: Ecology The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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