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...Sullivan is a landscape architect and associate professor in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. He visited and documented ancient Roman gardens while a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. His book is packed with photographs and drawings to illustrate the astute manner in which designers used the garden to create microclimates for pleasant outdoor living all year. He includes drawings for modern adaptations.
In December, finding the garden unbearably cold, we retreat indoors. But ancient garden designs took the winter cold into account. One useful device was the "hot seat." Typically made of thick stones, a hot seat faced the winter sun and captured its heat in the stone. The high seatback (Sullivan suggests a minimum of 4 feet) deflected the wind.
Similarly, a winter garden path was designed in ancient times alongside south-facing walls (Sullivan suggests 8-foot-tall walls along a northern edge) so that the heat reflected off the wall warned the strollers. A walk after dinner was considered essential to promote health and digestion. ...Naturally, ancient garden designers also had ingenious devices for cooling the garden in summer, and half of Sullivan's book is devoted to these remarkable designs.
For anyone interested in garden design or garden history, Sullivan's book is a unique resource and pleasure. (San Francisco Chronicle. 2005-06-27)
The Potting Shed Bookshelf These new books will inspire any budding gardener to get planting Any home gardener knows how important climate is to the success of planting. The small distance of just a few feet can mean the difference between life and death for plants, with their specific needs for light, water and wind conditions. Learn ancient secrets of dealing with the elements with this practical guide to historic solutions for common garden problems. (Farmer’s Almanac, Gardening Ideas 2004-02-01)
Excerpts from An Interview with Chip Sullivan, author of Garden and Climate by Deborah Rich
When Chip Sullivan and I spoke in mid-August, residents throughout the Midwest, the East Coast, and parts of Canada were sweltering in the dark, struggling to turn the power and water back on after the Black Out of 2003. The very morning of our conversation, the papers announced that overnight bombings in Iraq had taken out major fuel and water lines. Against this backdrop, our discussion of Sullivan's book, Garden and Climate (McGraw-Hill 2002)-- a study of the lessons early Mediterranean gardens offer on designing gardens to "passively" moderate, especially to cool, our immediate surroundings -- bore particular import.
In pursuit of how to design cooling elements into our home environments, our "micro-climates" as he terms them, Sullivan studied the gardens of the Persian and Roman empires and Renaissance Italy and Spain. Today, Sullivan combines study with practice as a landscape architect, artist and professor in the College of Environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley.
In Gardens and Climate, Sullivan categorizes landscape technologies according to the four elements -- earth, fire, air, and water. during our discussion, we focused upon the rarest, and therefore the most precious, most celebrated, and most judiciously used of these elements in the Mediterranean world, water. ...
Interviewer: What final message would you like to leave us with?
Chip Sullivan: We've got to get off the energy grid and return to the grid of the orchard. We need to recycle, capture and conserve every drop of water. Energy conservation begins at home at the residential scale. Water features can be designed and built to conserve energy and contribute to more comfortable and beautiful garden and climate. (Aquascape Lifestyles 2004-01-07)
Reviewed by Hala F. Nassar
Chip Sullivan's book Garden and Climate is a refreshing analytical visit to historic gardens that successfully addressed issues of climate control. Garden and Climate is the outcome of Sullivan's research journey to explore "the connection between landscape design and energy conservation" ... and was initially motivated by the energy crisis of the seventies.
... The book's readability and tone makes it suitable as a reference for both students and future researchers. Sullivan's excellent analytical sketches are a real strength. He examines garden features in section and plan and supplements with a perspective or photograph.
... Mark Treib's foreword and the author's introduction effectively prepare the reader for the writing that follows. ... The book is classically organized in separate books around the four elements -- earth, fire, air, and water -- a system of four elemental bodies devised by the Greek philosopher Empedocles to explain the nature of reality. Following a similar format, each book begins with a quotation about the book's element, followed by a discussion that connects the element to the introductory thesis.
... Garden and Climate makes an excellent contribution and is a highly needed addition to the body of literature in landscape architecture. ... The author has valuable insight to share about lessons learned from history, and possesses a creative talent in expressing this knowledge in both written and graphical forms. (Landscape Journal 2004-01-01)
Excerpts from Judith Taylor's Library Notes
...He has written a wonderful book. Hard-earned ancient wisdom about modulating climate naturally is in danger of being forgotten, as the modern world increases its dependence on artificial air conditioning and heating systems....Sullivan is not only a knowledgeable landscape architect and historian in his field but a very gifted artist. (San Francisco Garden Club 2003-05-01)
Written by Katherine Greenberg, garden designer, Lafayette, California
Sullivan explains the importance of grottos, courtyards, sunlit terraces, pergolas, pavilions, irrigation methods, and water features, using historic examples to arrive at contemporary applications. Cool fountains and shady arbors are pleasant places to linger on hot summer days, and warm benches and protected courtyards provide comfort and shelter from cold winter weather. Sullivan accompanies his descriptions with plans, sketches, and photographs to illustrate how the features look and function within the design of the garden.
Making the connection between climate and garden design is the author's most important contribution. Much of the research for the book as done while Sullivan was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
...Readers will share his excitement about creating gardens that "not only conserve energy, but are also works of art and places of spiritual renewal." Sullivan's vision for the future includes the development of attractive garden communities that contribute to the creation of a more sustainable environment and to the enjoyment of outdoor living. (Pacific Horticulture 2003-04-01)
By Linda Coyner
Utilizing ancient global examples and enriched with full colour photos and watercolours, "Garden and Climate" reveals how gardens conserve the environment and bring comfort and pleasure.
The author examines elements such as grottos, terraces, courtyards, water devices, tunnels, walks, natural shade, air flow, trapping heat, light, and much more to bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and the current needs of a society facing a need for sustainable climate control.
Valuable to both landscape professionals as well as amateur gardeners, this title is a treasure for aficionados of landscape history or anyone who is fascinated by the environmental ingenuity of the ancients. (www.SeniorWomen.com 2003-02-18)
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"Garden and Climate" by Chip Sullivan reaches back to the ancient gardens of Persia and the Italian Renaissance to explain how gardeners provided early air-conditioning with their grottoes and outdoor rooms of densely planted tress. To guard against the chill of winter, they planted cypress tress to block the north wind and built walkways along south-facing terraces.
With an eye to finite resources like water and oil, Mr. Sullivan, a landscape architect and artist based at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley, suggests designs -- illustrated with his delightful sketches -- for contemporary gardens that conserve energy and water. (The New York Times 2002-12-19)
Reviewed by Marlea Graham
...."Drawing on design traditions of Roman, Islamic, Italian Renaissance and Hispano-Moorish gardens, this book discusses a wide range of ingenious methods and structures that naturally create comfortable microclimates -- and explains how best to incorporate them into contemporary gardens." ... what attracted us to this book was the antique illustrations used to demonstrate some of these methods. (Eden 2002-12-01)
By C. M. Howett, emerita, University of Georgia
It would be unfortunate if the title of this book restricted its audience to readers interested in garden design, since its thesis is that historic gardens offer contemporary designers -- architects and engineers as much as landscape architects -- useful prototypes for achieving substantial modification of climate without dependence on resource-consumptive technologies. Sullivan, a landscape architect (Univ. of California, at Berkeley), began his study of simpler, passive strategies to ameliorate harsh environmental conditions while a Rome Prize Fellow of the American Academy; most of his examples are drawn from classical and Renaissance Mediterranean cultures and the Islamic traditions of Moorish Spain, Persia, and India...the organization of the contents under the four ancient cosmological elements of earth, air fire, and water frees Sullivan to explore the symbolic and metaphysical attributes with which these historic landscapes were imbued. Under the category of earth, for example grottoes functioning as cool retreats were, just as importantly, rich in psychological and mythic associations. Sullivan's drawings and proposals for four imagined sites illustrating how practical application of such principles and models might be achieved are similarly poetic and persuasive. All levels.
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