Gardens in the Modern Landscape by Tunnard, Christopher - 1948

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and B&W photographs and diagrams. 184 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a 'new technique' in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. 'The functional garden avoids the extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden and the intellectual classicism of the 'formal' garden,' he wrote; 'it embodies rather a spirit of rationalism and through an aesthetic and practical ordering of its units provides a friendly and hospitable milieu for rest and recreation.' Tunnard's magazine… Read More

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Paperback. Like New. Unmarked text. Foreword by John Dixon Hunt. Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Long out of print, the book is here reissued in a facsimile of the 1948 edition. 208p. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xxii, 184 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. With a new foreword by John Dixon Hunt. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. "Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a 'new technique' in garden design that emphasized an integration of form and purpose. "The functional garden avoids the extremes both of the sentimental expressionism of the wild garden and the intellectual classicism of the 'formal' garden," he wrote; "it embodies rather a spirit of rationalism and through an aesthetic and practical ordering of its units provides a friendly and hospitable milieu for rest and recreation." Tunnard's magazine pieces were republished in book form as… Read More

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