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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn Studies in Landscape ArchitecturePublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Facsimile of the Revised 1948 EditionDescription: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 200 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812222913
  • 9780812290042
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 712.6 23
LOC classification:
  • SB472 .T8 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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 -- Modern American Gardens -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
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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 -- Modern American Gardens -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)