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portada Designing a Garden: Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Type
Physical Book
Contributions by
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
24.6 x 19.6 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.84 kg.
ISBN13
9781580935524

Designing a Garden: Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Michael Van Valkenburgh (Author) · Laurie Olin (Contributions by) · Monacelli Press · Hardcover

Designing a Garden: Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Van Valkenburgh, Michael ; Olin, Laurie

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Synopsis "Designing a Garden: Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum"

The intimate Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston embodies the design principles that inform the work of noted landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh.In Designing a Garden, Van Valkenburgh presents the design of the Monk's Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an intimate, walled garden that Laurie Olin has described as "a masterpiece, and not a minor one."The book documents the evolution of the garden's design, which is based on the concept of meandering paths through a dreamlike woodland to create a contemplative space. Sketches and models show how the idea was worked out, and lush photographs reveal the completed garden through the seasons.Van Valkenburgh's text explores the origins of his love of landscape and plants in his family farm in Upstate New York and how this has influenced his intuitions as a designer. He shares the full background story of the Monk's Garden, focusing on the experimental nature of design work as well as the challenges and satisfactions of the small scale and the historic and cultural context.Designing a Garden provides a unique first-person account of the design process from the most prominent landscape architects in the country.

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