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The result of a collaboration between gardener and teacher, Pamela Wolfe, and award-winning photographer, Gary Irving, this is a guide on how to create fantastic gardens in the Midwest.
Presents the third volume in the Water Spaces series. This volume highlights the myriad of ways that water enhances a space from indoor swimming pools to ornamental fountains. It includes biographical detail on participating architectural and design firms.
Part art, and part architecture, this book presents a selection of some 300 line drawings by EDSA landscape architects.
Ascott in Buckinghamshire, England was the creation of Leopold de Rothschild, whose architect George Devey had progressively transformed a simple farmhouse on the site from 1874. This is a guide to one of England's hidden gems, containing some of the very finest pictures in the National Trust ownership and surrounded by 19-20th century gardens.
Offering a different approach to landscape perception, this book is a photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. Integrating philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies, it uses this perspective to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings.
This travel narrative goes beyond the roadside neon, using architecture as a means to explore the Route 66 history in New Mexico in four lively driving tours. For any Route 66 buff or traveler that wants an interesting look at New Mexico, this book takes a fresh look at its well worn subject--America's Mother Road.
A comprehensively revised edition of an architectural travel guide that describes both the centre of Paris and the suburbs where the most intense architectural experimentation is taking place. This survey features building and landscape projects.
One of the most beautiful of pleasure gardens during ancient Rome was the Horti Sallustiani, developed by the Roman historian Sallust at the end of the first century BC. This book presents a comprehensive history of the Gardens of Sallust since Roman times, as well as its influence on generations of scholars, intellectuals, and archaeologists.
Mark Laird offers a wealth of visual and literary materials to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.
Beautifully written and illustrated with intelligent charm . . . a quiet classic. --