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Overgrown - Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening (Hardcover)
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Overgrown - Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening (Hardcover)
Series: Overgrown
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A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to
the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in
landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by
someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape
architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work
in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch,
and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has
distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take
pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers.
Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office,
representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas
gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and
maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of
landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer
the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and
gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments
over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden
development; landscape architects should leave the office and go
into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated
way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant
material that he terms "the viridic" (after "the tectonic" in
architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations
of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic
through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that
range from "formal" to "informal" approaches-from a
sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish
poet-scientist's "marginal" garden, barely differentiated from
nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice
itself needs to be "gardened," brought back into the field. He
offers a "Manifesto for the Viridic" that casts designers and
plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape
gardening.
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