Berkeley/design/books 6: Almost home: the public landscapes of Gertrude Jekyll - Hardcover

Miller, Kristine F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9461400233 ISBN 13: 9789461400239

Verlag: Architectura & Natura, 2012

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Gertrude Jekyll, the esteemed British horticulturist, garden designer and writer, is lauded by many as a premier influence in landscape design. Her concept of the English garden symbolises "Englishness" in many ways. Although numerous private commissions have been analysed by critics, 'Almost Home' is the first book to address her public works. These exist across a diverse range of projects, demonstrating how her refined concepts could be deployed in the areas of health, memorial and tribute. Included are previously unpublished drawings, plus discussions of collaborations with architects such as Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker and Charles Holden.

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Kristine Miller is a professor Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and author of Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces.* Her new book will appeal to landscape, garden, and architectural historians for its new information, details about Jekyll's collaboration with the noted architects like Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Charles Holden, and never before published original drawings.* Projects: King Edward VII Sanatorium Phillips Memorial Cloister World War I Cemetries Gézaincourt Communal Cemetery Trouville Hospital Cemetery Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery Fienvillers British Cemetery Corbie La Neuville Hersin Communal Cemetery Auchonville Millitary Cemetery Winchester College War Memorial Cloister Delville Wood* "...Jekyll's concept of the English landscape and Englishness, which she refined and promulgated in her writing and photography could be deployed not only within the realm of everyday upper class lives, but as the language of health, the good life, memorial, and tribute."* Published in cooperation with the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Virginia Press

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• Verlag: Architectura & Natura
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9461400233
• ISBN 13: 9789461400239
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176