Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden

ISBN-13: 9781138679252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 292 str.

Kate Baker

Opis

This book discusses the continuing relevance of enclosed gardens to contemporary architecture by describing some of the greatest and most influential historical and contemporary examples.

Spis treści

1. Defining the Territory  2. From Patio to Park  3. Taming Nature  4. Ritual and Emptiness  5. Sensory Seclusion  6. Detachment  7. Green City

O autorze

Kate Baker is an architect and has been a lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and previously at Cambridge University, UK. Before that, she was partner in an architectural practice. She is an active researcher in both architecture and landscape, and our sensory relationship with space.