- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (5 Jan 2012)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415562295
- ISBN-13: 978-0415562294
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 574,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Throughout, Baker supplements objective analysis of particular sites with ‘experiential’ descriptions – observing such elements as acoustics, air-flow and light. While aimed at landscapists and architects, this book will be useful to anybody interested in designing space.” – Garden Design Journal
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The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture, architectural elements, and landscape, come together. It has a long history, ranging from the paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and the giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and the stage for social display, to its many modern forms; the city retreat, the redemptive garden, and the deconstructed building. By its nature it is ambiguous. Is it an outdoor room, or captured landscape; is it garden or architecture?
Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contemporary architects by exploring influential historical examples alongside some of the best of contemporary designs – brought to life with vivid photography and detailed drawings – taken mainly from Britain, the Mediterranean, Japan and South America. She argues that understanding the potential of the enclosed garden requires us to think of it as both a design and an experience.
As climate change becomes an increasingly important component of architectural planning, the enclosed garden, which can mediate so effectively between interior and exterior, provides opportunities for sustainable design and closer contact with the natural landscape. Study of the evolution of enclosed gardens, and the concepts they generate, is a highly effective means for students to learn about the design requirements of outdoor space proximal to the built environment.
Captured Landscape provides architectural design undergraduates, and practising architects, with a broad range of information and design possibilities. It will also appeal to landscape architects, horticulturalists and a wider audience of all those who are interested in garden design.
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I am not sure how this book manages to combine masses of alluring photos, with diagrams and drawings AND informative beautifully written text. It's not often you find a book which you might buy if you were an academic or a designer or simply any old person interested in gardens and or buildings and how they interact. I'm beginning to sound like a marketing department! I am NOT. I was just amazed by how comprehensive it is and deeply personal at the same time. Kate Baker is not only well informed - she writes beautifully and comes across as passionate about her subject. It's intelligent and beautiful.
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