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A Landscape Legacy (Hardcover)
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Hailed as ‘the man who made the modern garden’, John Brookes
transformed twentieth-century garden design, not only in his native
Britain but throughout the world. In his first – groundbreaking
– book, Room Outside, in 1969, he wrote ‘A garden is
essentially a place for use by people . . . not a static picture
created by plants . . . plants provide the props, the colour and
texture, but the garden is the stage and its design should be
determined by the uses it is intended to fulfil.’ For nearly
fifty years he has designed gardens, and taught garden design –
in the United States, Canada and South America, in Russian and
Japan, in Iran and all over Europe – and he continues to
emphasize ‘the importance of reconciling nature and the character
of a landscape with the needs and visions of the people living in
it’. Now, in A Landscape Legacy, John Brookes tells the story of
his life and work and reflects on how his thinking about design has
developed.  ‘John Brookes’s work has helped gardeners
worldwide move beyond the tradition of pure horticulture towards a
recognition of space, mass, volume and texture as crucial elements
in design; towards functional considerations – how people live in
gardens, even small ones created with modest means; and an emphasis
on setting and spirit of place, making gardens more than mere
fashionable and interchangeable decors. By treating garden design
as an art form, yet recognizing its raw materials as living,
evolving and infinitely diverse, he bridges the opposition of art
and nature, conceptual and environmental design.’ - Louisa
Jones, garden writer, Provence
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