Gardens for the Future: Gestures Against the Wind

by Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor

Book Overview

The subtitle of this oversized ode to garden design is fascinating. Despite the fact that industrial aesthetics (plastics, AstroTurf, chain-link) are explored along with high-tech ideas like artificial fog and fiber-optics, the authors, well-known British designers, still see the garden in the context of its potential wildness, its site-specific possibilities. Flamboyantly photographed, international in scope, Gardens for the Future enlarges our mind's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580930638
• ISBN13: 9781580930635
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.3" x 12.8"