This compelling account of the modern garden sets the best-known names in their historical and international context, and assesses the latest and boldest responses to the landscape around us.
Modern Garden Design begins in the Victorian era and continues into the age of Land Art in an extraordinarily varied survey. From Europe to South America, from Japan to the United States, the book covers the work of many garden and landscape designers whose names are familiar both to lovers and scholars of the modern garden, including Robinson, Jekyll, Jensen, Farrand, Sessions, Mawson, Church, Sørensen and Jellicoe.
Revolutionary changes were brought about by the Harvard Rebels - Eckbo, Rose and Kiley - and Modern Garden Design examines the impact of Noguchi, Burle Marx and Barragán, among others, as well as the powerful international influence of Scandinavian landscape architects and designers. A chapter on the garden city traces the growth of the idea from its beginnings in Britain through the Greenbelt Towns in the American Midwest, to the latest regeneration of urban centres across the world.
The intriguing influence of artists and architects on garden design is also examined, including Monet, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gaudí. Mor recently, land artists, such as Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Patricia Johanson and Kathryn Gustafson in the US, and Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the UK, have brought new ways of thinking about landscape and the garden into the twenty-first century.