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Gardens in the Modern Landscape - A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition (Paperback, A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition)
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Gardens in the Modern Landscape - A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition (Paperback, A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition)
Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard
published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review
that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by
the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard
called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an
integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the
extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden
and the intellectual classicism of the 'formal' garden," he wrote;
"it embodies rather a spirit of rationalism and through an
aesthetic and practical ordering of its units provides a friendly
and hospitable milieu for rest and recreation." Tunnard's magazine
pieces were republished in book form as Gardens in the Modern
Landscape in 1938, and a revised second edition was issued a decade
later. Taken together, these articles constituted a manifesto for
the modern garden, its influence evident in the work of such
figures as Lawrence Halprin, Philip Johnson, and Edward Larrabee
Barnes. Long out of print, the book is here reissued in a facsimile
of the 1948 edition, accompanied by a contextualizing foreword by
John Dixon Hunt. Gardens in the Modern Landscape heralded a sea
change in the evolution of twentieth-century design, and it also
anticipated questions of urban sprawl, historic preservation, and
the dynamic between the natural and built environments. Available
once more to students, practitioners, and connoisseurs, it stands
as a historical document and an invitation to continued innovative
thought about landscape architecture.
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