Invisible Gardens

Invisible Gardens
Author: Peter Walker
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262731164

Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.

Invisible Gardens

Invisible Gardens
Author: Julie Shigekuni
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2003-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312311834

The long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed "A Bridge Between Us" and a finely crafted novel for readers of Kathryn Harrison and Chang-rae Lee, "Invisible Gardens" is a beautiful, haunting story of a year in the life of Lily Soto, a young Japanese-American academic who finds herself in the throes of a mid-life crisis.

Reverence, Obedience and the Invisible in the Garden

Reverence, Obedience and the Invisible in the Garden
Author: Alan Chadwick
Publisher: Logosophia, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Biodynamic agriculture
ISBN: 9780981575735

Chadwick was an early force in the reintroduction of organics into horticulture, creating gardens of exquisite beauty and fertility in the 1960s and 1970s. In these lyrical talks, transcribed from taped lectures given to his students, the practical aspects of gardening, such as composting, irrigation, seeds, raised beds and bloom, are shown to have a spiritual substratum.

Visible, Invisible

Visible, Invisible
Author: Douglas Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Landscape architects
ISBN: 9781938922138

'Visible Invisible' presents 40 of the completed landscape designs by the widely recognized firm Reed Hilderbrand. Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand are known for their rigorously conceived and carefully executed projects that merge the particular native qualities of a site with recognizably contemporary design expression.

Something to Do

Something to Do
Author: Henry Turner Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 948
Release: 1915
Genre:
ISBN:

The Modern Garden

The Modern Garden
Author: Pierluigi Serraino
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 084783588X

Visionary landscape architecture and garden design at mid-century in North America is captured by the greats of the era, including Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller in many previously unpublished photographs. The treasures of mid-century American architecture have long been celebrated. Less appreciated has been the landscape design that provides the framing for these masterworks. But more than frame, landscape architecture is an art worthy of the spotlight, particularly at mid-century, when the notion that “gardens are outdoor spaces for people to live in” was championed and brought to the fore; now gardens and landscapes are not just external attributes to the house but a continuation of it and its living spaces in a relationship of symbiosis, with its pools and terraces, its winding lawns, and its partly enclosed room-like spaces flanked by brick or stone or plantings in a range of colors and forms. Approximately seventy-five mostly residential projects are thoroughly documented and recounted. Landscape architects whose work is featured include Thomas Church, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo, among others. Highlights include the dramatic surrounds of Richard Neutra’s Perkins House in its Pasadena hillside setting and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marin County Civic Center, where environment and building comingle in an extraordinary modernist vision of the future made real. This book is both a wishful gesture toward a realignment of building with nature and a must-have for anyone with a visceral appreciation for a designed environment understood as an integrated whole. Ultimately, the book underlines the fundamental importance of gardens and landscape design, intended in the widest possible sense, for the quality of living of all individuals.

City as Landscape

City as Landscape
Author: Tom Turner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136742204

In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.

Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 054413320X

Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.