424 Pages
by
Routledge
Garden design and usage has been a feature of human civilization as far back as Neolithic times, when the first gardens began to be used for residential, horticultural and sacred tasks. Tom Turner follows the entire history of the European garden from its prehistoric roots right up to the present day in this beautifully illustrated book.
European Gardens is divided into ten periods of... Read more
Preface 1. Design Philosophy 2. Garden Origins 10,000-1,000 BCE 3. Egyptian Gardens 2,000 BCE- 1000 BCE 4. Classical Gardens 1400 BCE–500 AD 5. Medieval Gardens 600 AD–1500 AD 6. Renaissance Gardens 1350–1650 7. Baroque Gardens 1600–1750 8. Neoclassical and Romantic Gardens 1700–1810 9. Eclectic Gardens 1800–1900 10. Abstract and Post-Abstract Gardens 1900–2000 Notes Picture Credits Index
Biography
Tom Turner teaches on the undergraduate and masters programmes in garden history and landscape architecture at the University of Greenwich in London.
"While European Gardens may look like a coffee table book at first glance, it reads like an introductory course on European garden design." - Landscape Architecture Magazine
