商品簡介
In this richly, illustrated volume, award-winning landscape architect Christopher Bradley-Hole has collected a fascinating range of contemporary gardens from around the world. The entire process of garden design is presented starting with a discussion of the influences that have shaped modern spaces. Thematic chapters present fundamental topics in the philosophy of contemporary design, including sources of inspiration proportion, and the dialogue between the natural landscape, the planted landscape, and architecture. Featured throughout are the contributions of twentieth-century art and landscape architecture to present-day design, represented by prominent artists and architects such as Dan Flavin, Le Corbusier, and Roberto Burle Marx.
作者簡介
Christopher Bradley-Hole is a leading landscape architect in the U.K. He has won numerous awards, including gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2004. His first book, The Minimalist Garden, won the Garden Writer's Guild Inspirational Book of the Year award for 1999-2000. He also teaches at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.