, 200 pages, with illustrations throughout, in both colour and black &amp; white, photographs by Susan Jellicoe, plans and maps by Gordon Patterson

The Gardens of Mughul India: A history and a guide,

History

Crowe, Sylvia

Haywood, Sheila

Asia

Thames and Hudson

The 3rd edition of this book has been revised and updated by one of the pioneers in the field of landscape design. The book examines principles of design in famous gardens in Spain, Italy, France and England. Dame Sylvia Crowe, a pioneer in the field of landscape design, has written a book that encompasses both a history of design in gardens and a study of the need for these principles to be applied to the contemporary landscape. She takes the reader through the recurring manifestations of the principles of design in such famous gardens as the Alhambra in Spain, the Villa Lante in Italy, Vaux-le-Vicomte in France and Stowe in England and on to the works of Roberto Burle Marx, Lawrence Halprin and Sven Hermelin. While this book is aimed at all landscape architects and planners, it should also be enjoyed by anyone interested in garden design.

Garden Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Intl Ideas

The last book by one of Britain's great landscape designers aims to make one aware of landscape art visible in our surroundings.

The Pattern of Landscape (Applied Ecology, Landscape, & Natural Resource Management Series)

Science & Math

Mitchell, Mary

Biological Sciences

Packard Pub.

The Pattern of Landscape (Applied Ecology, Landscape and Natural Resource Management Series)

Packard Pub Ltd

Dame Sylvia writes: "Gardens are the link between men and the world in which they live...A garden can give two separate pleasures: the pleasure of the growing plant with its individual beauty, and the pleasure of the garden as a whole, as a world to live in and to look at...Even without knowing why, we are aware of the immense peace of certain gardens, while others give a sense of exhilaration, which draws one to explore...Blind copying of another garden never succeeds, because gardens are a personal expression of desire made in response to a unique set of circumstances"... With these thoughts in mind, Dame Sylvia briefly describes the qualities of the Mogul, Hispano-Arabic, Sino-Japanese, Italian, French, English and other contemporary gardens, teasing out the principles of design and qualities we can absorb, and which she then elaborates in greater detail. "Perhaps the greatest of these and the one most lacking in the average garden today is a sense of unity. It is a quality found in all the great landscapes, based on the rhythm of natural land-form, the domination of one type of vegetation, and the fact that human use and buildings have kept in sympathy with their surroundings. When we say that landscape has been spoilt we mean that it has lost this unity". Of particular interest to readers also are the lengthy chapter on plants and their uses, and the author's studies of the extension of the private garden to the shared, and on to public open space.

Arts & Photography

Garden Art Press

Dame Sylvia Crowe (1901-1997), was a pioneer in the field of landscape design, writing a book that encompasses both a fascinating history of design in gardens and a stimulating study of the need for these principles to be applied to the contemporary landscape. This book is Garden Design . Crowe takes the reader through the recurring manifestations of the principles of design in such famous gardens as the Alhambra in Spain, the Villa Lante in Italy, Vaux-le-Vicomte in France and Stowe in England and on to the works of Roberto Burle Marx, Lawrence Halprin and Sven Hermelin. While this book is essential reading for all landscape architects and planners, Dame Sylvia's grasp of and relish for her subject make it compulsive reading for anyone newly awakened to the excitement and pleasure of garden design. ' I use and learn from this book constantly; it still sits beside my desk ... There are chapters on garden history, sculpture, plot management, private gardens, allotments, landscaping. I found it ope

Garden Design - Sylvia Crowe

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