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Captured Landscape - Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Captured Landscape - Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where
architecture and landscape come together. It has a long and varied
history, ranging from the early paradise garden and cloister, the
botanic garden and giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and as a
stage for social display. The enclosed garden has continued to
develop into its many modern forms: the city retreat, the
redemptive garden, the deconstructed building. As awareness of
climate change becomes increasingly important, the enclosed garden,
which can mediate so effectively between interior and exterior,
provides opportunities for sustainable design and closer contact
with the natural landscape. By its nature it is ambiguous. Is it an
outdoor room, or captured landscape; is it architecture or garden?
Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of
the enclosed garden to contemporary architects by exploring
influential historical examples and the concepts they generate,
alongside some of the best of contemporary designs - brought to
life with vivid photography and detailed drawings - taken primarily
from Britain, the Mediterranean, Japan and North and South America.
She argues that understanding the potential of the enclosed garden
requires us to think of it as both a design and an experience.
Captured Landscape provides a broad range of information and design
possibilities for students of architectural and landscape design,
practising architects, landscape designers and horticulturalists
and will also appeal to a wider audience of all those who are
interested in garden design. This second edition of Captured
Landscape is enriched with new case studies throughout the book.
The scope has now been broadened to include an entirely new chapter
concerning the urban condition, with detailed discussions on issues
of ecology, sustainability, economy of means, well-being and the
social pressures of contemporary city life.
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