Garden and Metaphor
Essays on the Essence of the Garden
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Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and...
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Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency. In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for. The importance of the garden for our present and in the future Internationally renowned authors A beautifully designed, attractive volume with photography by Anne Schwalbe
Detaljer
Forlag
Birkhauser
ISBN
9783035626551
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
320
Udgivelsesdato
06-11-2023
Format
Hardback
Varenr.
3165613
EAN nr.
9783035626551
Varegruppe
Architecture
Højde/Dybde (mm)
249
Bredde (mm)
178
Længde (mm)
31
Vægt (g)
1002