The intimate Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of
noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. In Designing a
Garden, Van Valkenburgh presents the design of the Monk's Garden at
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an intimate, walled garden
that Laurie Olin has described as a masterpiece, and not a minor
one. The book documents the evolution of the garden's design, which
is based on the concept of meandering paths through a dreamlike
woodland to create a contemplative space. Sketches and models show
how the idea was worked out, and lush photographs reveal the
completed garden through the seasons. Van Valkenburgh's text
explores the origins of his love of landscape and plants in his
family farm in Upstate New York and how this has influenced his
intuitions as a designer. He shares the full background story of
the Monk's Garden, focusing on the experimental nature of design
work as well as the challenges and satisfactions of the small scale
and the historic and cultural context. Designing a Garden provides
a unique first-person account of the design process from the most
prominent landscape architects in the country.
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