Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden

by Kate Baker

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together. It has a long and varied history, ranging from the early paradise garden and cloister, the botanic garden and giardini segreto, the kitchen garden and as a stage for social display. The enclosed garden has continued to develop into its many modern forms: the city retreat, the redemptive garden, the deconstructed building. As awareness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138679259
• ISBN13: 9781138679252
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.6"