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Landscapes of the Imagination. Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000 | Christian Bertram, Erik de Jong, Michel Lafaille | 9789056620295

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Landscapes of the Imagination

Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000

Author:Christian Bertram, Erik de Jong, Michel Lafaille

Publisher:NAi Uitgevers

ISBN: 978-90-5662-029-5

  • Paperback
  • Dutch, English
  • 160 Pages
  • Jun 14, 2008
Landscapes of the Imagination. Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000 is about the significance of garden and landscape architecture as a design discipline. The core of the book and exhibition is formed by a selection of 40 original designs and sketches from the European tradition of garden and landscape architecture. They were designed by familiar names such as Le Nôtre, Humphrey Repton, Peter Joseph Lenné, Ernst Cramer, Gunnar Asplund and Bernard Tschumi, but also by less famous designers, including a 17th-century amateur/commissioner. These drawings are virtually unknown among the general public or professional circles.

Landscapes of the Imagination. Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000 is about the significance of garden and landscape architecture as a design discipline. The core of the book and exhibition is formed by a selection of 40 original designs and sketches from the European tradition of garden and landscape architecture. They were designed by familiar names such as Le Nôtre, Humphrey Repton, Peter Joseph Lenné, Ernst Cramer, Gunnar Asplund and Bernard Tschumi, but also by less famous designers, including a 17th-century amateur/commissioner. These drawings are virtually unknown among the general public or professional circles.

The designs reveal that garden and landscape architecture is a conceptual design discipline that is aimed at shaping actual as well as symbolic surroundings. They also denote a discipline that, unlike any other form of design, works with the complex medium of the landscape itself. We can therefore draw a wealth of insights from these wonderfully executed designs regarding the relationship between humankind, nature, landscape and culture.

Reference materials such as engravings, photographs and texts provide the reader with insight into the design of these landscapes and elucidate the powers of imagination that played a role in their conception. Six plans are documented in their current state in a photographic essay.

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