Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East
Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East The complex story of modern landscape architecture remains to be written, as does its precise definition. Tunnard's pioneering manifesto, Gardens…
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Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East
The complex story of modern landscape architecture remains to be written, as does its precise definition. Tunnard's pioneering manifesto, Gardens in the Modern Landscape, first published in 1938, laid out the thinking and provided the direction for a landscape architecture engaged more strongly with contemporary life, adopting ideas from modern art as well as the historical gardens of Japan. Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West and East, written by one of the field's most prolific and insightful authors, provides a rare cross-cultural study that examines the written and design contributions made by two of the movement's most influential early protagonists: Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) in England--and later the United States, and Sutemi Horiguchi (1896-1984) in Japan.
Rather than a book, it was the architect Horiguchi's 1934 essay "The Garden of Autumn Grasses" that