Marc Treib Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & EastCondition: NewEAN: 9781943532780ISBN: 9781943532780Publisher: Oro EditionsFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/03/2020Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 191mmItem Weight: 1150gAuthor: Marc TreibLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi HoriguchiDescription: The complex story of modern landscape architecture remains to be written, as does its precise definition. Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East, written by one of the field's most prolific and insightful authors, provides a rare cross-cultural study that examines the written and design contributions made by two of the movement's most influential early protagonists: Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) in England - and later the United States, and Sutemi Horiguchi (1896-1984) in Japan. Tunnard's pioneering manifesto, Gardens in the Modern Landscape, first published in 1938, laid out the thinking and provided the direction for a landscape architecture engaged more strongly with contemporary life, adopting ideas from modern art as well as the historical gardens of Japan. Rather than a book, it was the architect Horiguchi's 1934 essay The Garden of Autumn Grasses that initiated a new direction for garden making in Japan, with a considered and artful use of seasonal plants and a stronger connection to the modern architecture it accompanied. Unlike Tunnard, who sought inspiration and sources in contemporary art, Horiguchi looked to the eighteen-century Rimpa School of painting for insights into the composition of the new garden by carefully placing individual plants against a simple background. Although the two theorists-practitioners never met, Tunnard's interest in Japan, and use of Horiguchi's work as illustrations, links them in a shared quest for a landscape architecture appropriate to their times and respective countries.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Architecture & AntiquesISBN-10: 1943532788Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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