The Poetics of Gardens

by Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell and William Turnbull

• ISBN13: 9780262631532
• ISBN10: 0262631539
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-13
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. Charles W. Moore, one of America's best-known architects, is O'Neil Ford Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. William J. Mitchell is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, and Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William Turnbull, Jr., is Principal of William Turnbull Associates, San Francisco.

Author Biography

Charles W. Moore, one of America's best-known architects, is O'Neil Ford Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin William J. Mitchell is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, and Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology William Turnbull, Jr., is Principal of William Turnbull Associates, San Francisco

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Acknowledgments	ix
The Genius of the Place
Shan and Shui	2	(4)
God and Cain	6	(2)
Sunlight and Shadow	8	(2)
Memory and Expectation	10	(12)
The Designer's Place
Occupying the Site	22	(1)
Establishing the Game	23	(3)
Shaping Spaces	26	(10)
Creating Climates	36	(5)
Lending Life	41	(10)
The Place of the Past
Settings	51	(28)
Uluru	51	(4)
Ryoan-ji	55	(3)
Capability Brown's Parks	58	(7)
Isola Bella	65	(4)
Bali	69	(10)
Collections	79	(38)
Death Valley	79	(3)
The Collections of Three Kingdoms	82	(11)
The Summer Palace	93	(4)
Katsura Imperial Villa	97	(6)
Sissinghurst	103	(8)
Some Botanical Gardens	111	(6)
Pilgrimages	117	(41)
Amarnath	118	(4)
Lamayuru	122	(3)
Rousham	125	(11)
Stourhead	136	(8)
The Villa Lante	144	(4)
City Gardens: Isfahan and Beijing	148	(10)
Patterns	158	(49)
The Symmetries of the Ram Bagh	158	(4)
The Waters of Kashmir	162	(8)
Shalamar Bagh	170	(4)
Nishat Bagh	174	(5)
Mughul Tomb Gardens	179	(11)
The Alhambra	190	(5)
The Generalife	195	(3)
Vaux-le-Vicomte	198	(5)
Studley Royal	203	(4)
Our Own Places
Paradise Replayed	207	(9)
Bigger Patterns	211	(1)
Swifter Pilgrimages	212	(1)
Costlier Collections	213	(2)
Simpler Settings	215	(1)
Edens to Order	216	(2)
Amerikanergarten Chats	218	(23)
Courtyards	218	(4)
Front Yards	222	(4)
Backyards	226	(3)
Side Yards	229	(6)
Graveyards	235	(6)
Bibliography	241	(8)
Index	249