Conceptualist Landscapes: An Alternative Way to Design Gardens

by Paul Cooper

Conceptual gardens depend on inspiration which is the result of an exhaustive intellectual process. The starting point is an IDEA or stimulus that pushes the design along, rather than observing more conventional styles - whether classical of modernist - into which idea or relationships are fitted. Horticultural considerations, architectural or aesthetic doctrines and practically-based problem-solving are either abandoned or regarded as a means to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853411450
• ISBN13: 9781853411458
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 112 Pages