{"product_id":"the-private-oasis-the-landscape-architecture-of-edmund-hollander-design","title":"The Private Oasis: The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether a home is a great place to live often depends on what lies beyond its walls. The landscape - when it has a well-thought-out shape and character - gives a home much of its character and satisfaction. In The Private Oasis  two of New Yorks leading landscape architects  Edmund Hollander and Maryanne Connelly  guide readers through a series of remarkable landscapes and gardens  explaining how to apply their techniques  no matter what the size of the readers property.  Since founding Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architect Design in 1990  Hollander and Connelly and the more than a dozen landscape architects on their staff have designed hundreds of residential landscapes  from the palatial to the somewhat more modest. Every landscape  they believe  has a story to tell. The aim of the landscape architect  when working with the homeowners  the site  and the architecture of the house  is to decide what that story is  and see that it is told well.  You cant plant whatever you want  wherever you want it. You cant rearrange the earth arbitrarily. You have to respond to the makeup of the land and its water flows  its vegetation  wildlife and other features using that knowledge to fashion a living landscape. That was a key precept Hollander and Connelly learned from the pioneer of ecological planning  Ian McHarg  and it undergirds all their thinking. Hollander and Connelly marry factors from nature to an understanding of human ecology. Says Connelly: \"The solution is always driven by who will be using the landscape and how they will be using it.\"  The Private Oasis focuses on built elements in the landscape including the entry  seating and gathering places  outdoor dining  swimming pools and water features and tennis courts. It is lavishly illustrated with over 1000 color photographs. A successor volume will focus on plantings. Together  the two volumes will give readers a comprehensive orientation to the making of residential landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948577517621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0982439253","price":317.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780982439258_6a081774-a542-42b1-8bc6-e4524f00882c.jpg?v=1770235126","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-private-oasis-the-landscape-architecture-of-edmund-hollander-design","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}