Product Description

Gardens in the twentieth century reach back into the Victorian era and forward into the age of Land Art. Modern Garden Design traces the revolutionary postwar period the Harvard rebels, Eckbo, Rose and Kiley; Noguchi, Burle Marx and Barragán and the powerful influence of the Scandinavian landscape designers.The garden city is given close attention, from late Victorian Britain, through the Greenbelt Towns in the American Midwest, to the newest regeneration of urban centres worldwide. Notable artists and architects also feature here: Monet, Le Corbusier, Mondrian,Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gaudí among others. Land artists have brought landscape and the garden into the 21st century including Robert Smithson and Kathryn Gustafson in the US, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the UK. This book will delight and inform everyone with an interest in gardens and contemporary culture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76930 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"'As a contribution to the literature of garden and landscape design history, Modern Garden Design is an invaluable addition. Waymark informs, educates and connects... a volume to enjoy and to inspire' - Landscape Design"

About the Author
Janet Waymark is Lecturer in Garden History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She holds a number of degrees and awards, notably from the London School of Economics, Birkbeck College - where she was awarded her doctorate in historical geography - and the Architectural Association.

Customer Reviews

A fantastic insight into the past century of garden design
This is an extremely valuable book for students of garden history and design but is also extremely accessible to everyone.
Includes some beautiful photos. A fascinating introduction to the history of 20th century gardening.