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John Dixon Hunt introduces PWP Landscape Architecture: Building
Ideas with a discussion of how we read landscapes and, hence, how
they are designed with the reader/client in mind and the historical
implications of such efforts. Peter Walker, Gary Hilderbrand, and
Gina Crandell trace the history of Peter Walker's various firms
from the 1950s until 2000, and Jane Gillette discusses some recent
projects in terms of using consultants to further design ideas.
Twelve finished projects, seven works in progress, and three
competitions, from roughly 2000 to 2015, demonstrate the firm's
goals and achievements with an emphasis on the expansion of
landscape architecture from the surrounds of buildings to
self-sufficient entities that express the highest accomplishments
of both ecological function and design.
Are gardens anything more than collections of plants? Spaces for
leisure activities? Extensions that protect the private house from
the public road? Art objects appreciated by a relatively small
group of connoisseurs? To consider such questions this guidebook
invites readers on a tour of ten beautiful gardens as depicted in
thousands of pages of fiction written by the most skillful of
novelists over almost a millennium. From Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of
Genji and the ever-mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, to such
Chinese masterpieces as the Chin Ping Mei and Cao Xuequin Story of
the Stone, and on through the works of famous American, Australian,
English, and European writers, these novels compound gardens as
they exist within the culture of the time with the specific needs
of fiction, tackling everything from planting plans to the
activities that take place within the garden confines. When
novelists write the garden it is revealed, again and again, as the
site of peccadilloes that define the state of being human, and
while these written gardens may not be places we would ever wish to
visit, should they actually exist, a consideration of their role in
defining humanity provides yet another way to experience and
appreciate any real gardens we happen to encounter.
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