A thoughtful read for garden lovers, designers and nature enthusiasts, Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, a richly illustrated garden design and landscape architecture book published by Vitra Design Museum, explores how contemporary gardens respond to ecology, climate change and our connection to the land.
The book is divided into four main themes – Paradise, Garden Politics, Testing Grounds, The World as a Garden – examining what gardens and their design reveal about our relationship to nature. In exploring the history of ideas behind the genesis of the modern garden, the book takes a close look at the present, goes in search of origins in the past, and builds bridges into the future.
Stunning photographs illustrate ground-breaking gardens by designers such as Derek Jarman and Piet Oudolf while critical articles by well-known authors question conventional garden ideals. Authors and gardeners including Gilles Clement and Jamaica Kincaid present the garden as a place of learning where abstract concepts like ecology, climate change, and food insecurity are translated into things you can smell, touch, and taste. Daisy Ginsberg, Salmon Creek Farm, and EcoLogic Studio create experimental and speculative projects generating new attitudes and approaches.
Publishers description (extract from book cover)
The garden has always been a paradise and a place of refuge, an expression of the relationship between humans and nature, a reflection of identities, dreams and visions. Today, however, the garden is a much more romantic retreat - It is also a place where concepts of social justice and a sustainable future can be tried and tested.
Garden Futures: Designing with Nature explores the history and future of gardens in sumptuous photo essays, in-depth articles, and numerous interviews. In the face of climate crisis, globalization, and food insecurity, garden makers like Mien Ruys and Piet Oudolf, Roberto Burle Marx and the Malaysian Kebun-Kebun Bangsar collective, and writers like Jamaica Kincaid or Giles Clement provide thought -provoking case studies and ideas. Combined with examples from landscape architecture, design and art, a rich picture emerges in which the garden is a place of hope and promise.
Product details
- Format: Hardback
- Size: 24.77 cm x 2.54 cm x 28.58 cm
- Page count: 220
- ISBN: 9783945852538