{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-western-gardens-a-design-history-from-the-renaissance-to-the-present-day-9780262132640","title":"The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day","description":"\u003cp\u003eHonorable Mention  1992 Garden Globe Awards sponsored by the Garden Writers Association of America.  The Architecture of Western Gardens presents an international tour of garden design from the Renaissance to the present. As object and as literature  it is a sumptuous and unprecedented resource. The more than seventy essays by scholars from Europe and America all commissioned for this book - and over 650 illustrations raise the standard of garden literature to a new level. The result is an invaluable compendium that will serve as a fundamental starting point for exploring the many expressions of the place where nature and culture  project and diversion  work and pleasure meet.  Organized chronologically  the essays and illustrations make up a mosaic of the garden in the Western world. The humanist garden in Renaissance Italy  the concepts of the \"Sublime\" and the \"Picturesque \" mazes  grottoes  and other curiosities  city parks  American land art  and even Disneyland are among the topics treated. Discussions of characteristic aspects of history and theory are followed by analyses of individual gardens as paradigms of their type: the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg  the Parc Monceau in Paris  the Park Guell in Barcelona  Stowe in England  and many more.  The illustrations are a model of how iconography can function as text. They include ground plans meticulously redrawn from original archival material to provide precise information on the scale and nature of many of the projects  as well as a wealth of drawings  reconstructions  paintings  and photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651474939957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262132648","price":120.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262132640.jpg?v=1781835007","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-architecture-of-western-gardens-a-design-history-from-the-renaissance-to-the-present-day-9780262132640","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}