The modern garden : the outdoor architecture of mid-century America / Pierluigi Serraino

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serraino, Pierluigi, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--United States.

Landscape architecture.

Midcentury modern (Architecture).

Landscape photography.

Photography of gardens.

mid-century modernist.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"Visionary landscape architecture and garden design at mid-century in North America is captured by the greats of the era, including Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, and Ernest Braun, in many previously unpublished photographs. The treasures of mid-century American architecture have long been celebrated. Less appreciated has been the landscape design that frequently provides the framing for these architectural masterworks. But much more than a frame, landscape architecture is an art worthy of the spotlight, particularly at mid-century, when the notion that 'gardens are outdoor spaces for people to live in' was championed and brought to the fore; now gardens and landscapes are not just external attributes to the house or building but a continuation of it and its living spaces in a relationship of symbiosis, with its pools and terraces, its winding lawns, and its partly enclosed room-like spaces flanked by brick or stone or plantings in a range of colors and forms. Approximately seventy-five mostly residential projects are thoroughly documented and recounted. Landscape architects whose work is featured include Thomas D. Church, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo, among others. Highlights include the dramatic surrounds of Richard Neutra's Perkins House in its Pasadena hillside setting, a modernist Eden, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin County Civic Center, where environment and building comingle in an extraordinary modernist vision of the future made real. This book is conceived to be both a wishful gesture toward a realignment of building with nature and a must-have for anyone with a visceral appreciation for a designed environment understood as an integrated whole. Ultimately, the book underlines the fundamental importance of gardens and landscape design, intended in the widest possible sense, for the quality of living of all individuals"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Garden in the camera: photography and landscape

Garden as space: outdoor architecture

Landscape architect and architect: a complex relationship

Landscape architecture in architectural history: the grand absent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221)

ISBN:

9780847835881

084783588X

OCLC:

1427496568