{"product_id":"gardens-in-the-modern-landscape-a-facsimile-of-the-revised-1948-edition-paperback-softback-9780812222913","title":"Gardens in the Modern Landscape; A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812222913","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGardens in the Modern Landscape\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Tunnard (Author), John Dixon Hunt (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812222913\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 2 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A classic and seminal text that inspired a generation of students to change the world of landscape design. For architects and landscape architects alike, this book argued for a new aesthetic related to the art and times.\" (Laurie Olin)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e Tunnard's magazine pieces were republished in book form as \u003ci\u003eGardens in the Modern Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eGardens in the Modern Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword to the Facsimile Edition\u003cbr\u003e -John Dixon Hunt\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGardens in the Modern Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e (1948 edition)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52693397602584,"sku":"9780812222913","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/gardens-in-the-modern-landscape-a-facsimile-of-the-revised-1948-edition-paperback-softback-9780812222913","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}