DUMBARTON OAKS COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
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Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 29

Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations

Edited by Michel Conan

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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95

ISBN 9780884023258

Publication Date: 06/30/2007

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  • Introduction: In Defiance of the Institutional Art World [Michel Conan]
  • When Art Is a Garden—Benny Farm by Claude Cormier [Susan Herrington]
  • The Re-enchantment of the Maegaki Residence by Mirei Shigemon [Christian Tschumi]
  • Culture, Tradition and Contemporary Indian Landscape Design: Mohammed Shaheer at Sanskriti Kendra [Priyaleen Singh]
  • The Garden as the Last Luxury Today: Thought-Provoking Garden Projects by Dieter Kienast (1945–1998) [Udo Weilacher]
  • The Colas Gardens by Bernard Lassus: Coming to Terms with Fleeting Encounters in a Decentered World [Michel Conan]
  • Echoes of Paradise: Fernando Chacel’s Gardens in the Coastal Plain of Jacarepaguà [Peter Jacobs]
  • Walking through the Crossing: The Draw at Sugar House Park by Patricia Johanson [Xin Wu]
  • The Garden at Portrack Designed and Created by Charles Jencks (1986–2004): Entrapment and Release [Michael Spens]
  • To Make the Stone[s] Stony: Defamiliarisation and Andy Goldsworthy’s Garden of Stone [Jacky Bowring]
  • Cardada by Paolo Burgi: The Experience of the Gaze [Massimo Venturi Ferriolo]
  • The Planetary Garden, Garden Unknown: On the Work of Landscaper Gilles Clément [Jacques Leenhardt]
  • A ‘Garden of the Hesperides’: The Landscape Initiative of the Musée Gassendi, Digne, and the National Park of Alpes de Haute-Provence [Stephen Bann]

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