Mediterranean Landscape Design: Vernacular Contemporary

by Louisa Jones

Book Overview

Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least 30,000 years. Today, artists, sculptors, designers, architects, and gardeners explore age-old materials, skills, and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that celebrates life in this multifaceted region. Each work here, whether in France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, or Spain, observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050029111X
• ISBN13: 9780500291115
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 11.3"