The Poetics of Gardens

by William Turnbull, Charles Willard Moore, Adrian Mitchell, et al.

Book Overview

This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards.

There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262631539
• ISBN13: 9780262631532
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A treasure of a book!

This is a book full of the breath of life. Like the great gardens described, it can be appreciated in many ways. At once a collection and a pilgrimage, combining East and West, always with a touch of humor, it makes you feel the joy of being alive!

Not a cofee-table book, a SERIOUS BOOK!!!

This book impressed me with the amount of information on garden design, styles and history it has. No, it is not a coffee table book with pretty pictures, but a serious study on the history of garden design. The pictures in it are black-and-white, as well as all diagrams and plans. It is an excellent reference book for students of landscape design and garden lovers alike!!!

Much more than a garden book

It's really about experiencing and analyzing the spacial environment. Well written & illustrated. I've used it as a supplemental text in a history of L.A. course, & students have found it really valuable. I've just plain enjoyed it.

Covers a lot

Good examples of different aspects of the landscape. Explains different types of gardens well. It was an assigned book for a class, which made me not want to read it, but I'm glad that I did. Well written with good diagrams.