Gardens in the Modern Landscape : A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition / Christopher Tunnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tunnard, Christopher, Author.

Contributor:

Hunt, John Dixon

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape gardening.

Gardens.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden and the intellectual classicism of the 'formal' garden," he wrote; "it embodies rather a spirit of rationalism and through an aesthetic and practical ordering of its units provides a friendly and hospitable milieu for rest and recreation."Tunnard's magazine pieces were republished in book form as Gardens in the Modern Landscape in 1938, and a revised second edition was issued a decade later. Taken together, these articles constituted a manifesto for the modern garden, its influence evident in the work of such figures as Lawrence Halprin, Philip Johnson, and Edward Larrabee Barnes.Long out of print, the book is here reissued in a facsimile of the 1948 edition, accompanied by a contextualizing foreword by John Dixon Hunt. Gardens in the Modern Landscape heralded a sea change in the evolution of twentieth-century design, and it also anticipated questions of urban sprawl, historic preservation, and the dynamic between the natural and built environments. Available once more to students, practitioners, and connoisseurs, it stands as a historical document and an invitation to continued innovative thought about landscape architecture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword to the Facsimile Edition

Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1948 edition)

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Landscape Into Garden

The XIXTh-Century Tradition

Towards A New Technique

Garden Intro Landscape

Modern American Gardens

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8122-9004-6

OCLC:

890674542