Landscape

British Gardens (March 2013)

Garden design began in West Asia and spread through Europe. This book tells how, in the British Isles, it flourished to an extraordinary degree. Following the historical method in Tom Turner’s books on Asian Gardens (2010) and European Gardens (2011), British Gardens uses almost 1000 color photographs, plans and style diagrams to provide a word and image history of garden design. Individual chapters cover the Celtic, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Arts and Crafts, Modern and Postmodern periods. Additional information about the gardens in the book is available on the Gardenvisit.com website, which the author edits http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/british_gardens_companion

Click here to read a short interview with Tom Turner

1. What do you think is the most exciting development in landscape architecture at the moment?

Design methods, having advanced from 2D to 3D, with help from CAD, is now advancing to 4D, with help from Geographical Information Systems. Landscape designs can look back to the distant past and forward to imagined futures.

2. What are your 3 favorite landscape architecture books?

Jellicoe, GA and S The Landscape of Man
Whyte, WH The Last Landscape
Hough, M City Form and Natural Process

3. What made you choose to have a career in landscape architecture, and what would you be doing now if you had gone down a different path?
A love of photography, painting and landscapes. I guess I would have been a town planner or architect if not a landscape architect

4. What advice would you give to aspiring landscape architects?

Don't wait for people to give you commissions: persuade the public, organisations and clients that they can and should have better designed landscapes

5. Sum up the profession in 3 words.

Sublime, Ridiculous, Fascinating

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