- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0375501541
- ISBN-13: 978-0375501548
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 2 x 26.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,078,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The elements of garden architecture—paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art—together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, legendary landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through some of his most exquisitely designed gardens—in the country, in the city, in the suburbs, and by the shore. “When it comes to planning a comfortable and rewarding garden,” van Sweden writes in his Introduction, “the challenges that confront the owner of an estate or a weekend cottage are often substantially the same. The principles and techniques used for organizing a large site work equally well in a more modest setting.”
Each case study highlights a particular architectural element, breaking it down into practical ideas that any gardener can apply to his or her own garden or yard. The book includes dozens of detailed schematic drawings that can be used to build many of the elements described by the author, along with an extensive, illustrated glossary. Architecture in the Garden is sure to inspire you with its many practical ideas on how to domesticate your landscape and design an outdoor space that suits your taste as well as your lifestyle.
Each case study highlights a particular architectural element, breaking it down into practical ideas that any gardener can apply to his or her own garden or yard. The book includes dozens of detailed schematic drawings that can be used to build many of the elements described by the author, along with an extensive, illustrated glossary. Architecture in the Garden is sure to inspire you with its many practical ideas on how to domesticate your landscape and design an outdoor space that suits your taste as well as your lifestyle.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
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Practical and beautiful, 19 Jun 2003
By MIRANDA JOHNSON - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Architecture in the Garden (Hardcover)
With gardening books more prolific than cyanophyta on a neglected pond, I was expecting typically lovely photos accompanied by a heavy-handed lecture on what HAD to be done and NOT done. This book is so wonderfully not that. The text is distilled expertise, so readable and new its actually hard to look at the pictures. I can't imagine what it would cost to have the author around for an hour to give you this advice in person -but it would be worth it!!Instead, we have this great book with relevant pictures that demonstrate the text perfectly. A cultivated pleasure.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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My favorite reference book, 3 Sep 2005
By Melanie Williams "Mandy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Architecture in the Garden (Hardcover)
I am a landscape designer and I use this book constantly, not only for inspiration, but also for the illustrations provided on how to construct many of the architectural features shown.
This book has a permanant place on my drafting table and has so many paper clips marking pages--it is by far the most useful book about landscape architecture I have come across.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Making good bones, 1 Nov 2003
By Valerie Adolph "Coast Journal" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Architecture in the Garden (Hardcover)
James van Sweden has been designing gardens for over 30 years and he is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. In this book he shares with the reader the essential role that architecture plays in organizing the garden landscape. With carefully chosen examples he shows how man-made features of the garden - paths, walls, gates etc. - create the framework for a garden that is both beautiful and easy to live with.This book is readable and anecdotal in style, yet it covers the fundamental principles of design and shows how they can be put into practice to enhance many different types of garden. It is extensively illustrated, mostly with the author's own photographs, and these support the text in clearly delineating the applications of design principles to town gardens, seaside gardens, country gardens and so on.
Despite the author's relaxed approach this is a very thorough book and it will be invaluable to anyone planning a garden. My only quibble is that many of the gardens might be called estates, measured in acres, and to some extent this limits the book's practical value to the gardener with a standard city lot, or less.
But good "bone structure" is important in all gardens and this book will help any gardener pull together the significant man-made pieces of the garden into a graceful and beautiful whole.
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