The Chinese Garden

Garden Types for Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Bianca Maria Rinaldi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2011
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
978-3-0346-0222-8 (ISBN)

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With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chinese gardens constitute an unparalleled repository of design solutions familiar throughout the world. They are frequently drawn upon as reference works, but often in a piecemeal and haphazard fashion and from botanical or art-historical vantage points. That is where the books of this new series come in. They present the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. Starting from the formidable beauty of the world’s most distinguished gardens, they point the way toward the essential compositional principles, the plants most commonly utilized and their most characteristic uses, and the possibilities for employing them in contemporary projects, thus providing readers with a rich source of inspiration for their own designs and creations. The panorama of "The Chinese Garden" stretches from the surviving historical gardens all the way to such modern examples as the garden at the Bank of China in Hong Kong (designed by I. M. Pei), Ai Weiwei’s Yiwu Riverbank Park, the Garden of Flowering Fragrance in the Los Angeles, California, region and the Garden of Awakening Orchids in Portland, Oregon.

Dr.-Ing. Bianca Maria Rinaldi studied architecture at the University of Camerino, Italy, and landscape architecture at the Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. She was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Landscape Architecture of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna and at the Institute for Architecture and Landscape of Graz University of Technology, Austria. She is Assistant Professor for Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Camerino, Italy.

Evolution and Typology

Composition and Effects

Elements

Reconfiguring the Chinese Garden

Short Portraits of Parks and Gardens

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2011
Zusatzinfo	6 b/w and 310 col. ill.
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	305 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1090 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	Chinese Garden • Chinesischer Garten • Garden Types • Landscape Design
ISBN-10	3-0346-0222-7 / 3034602227
ISBN-13	978-3-0346-0222-8 / 9783034602228
Zustand	Neuware