Gardens Are For People, Third edition
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520201205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His plans reflect the personality and practical needs of the homeowner, as well as a pragmatic response to the logistical demands of the site.. This classic of landscape architecture has been required reading for the residential garden design professional, student, and generalist since its publication in 1955. Church viewed the garden as a logical extension of the house, with one extending naturally into the other. Amply illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2,000 gardens Church designed during the course of his career, the third edition has a new Preface as well as a selected bibliography of writings by and about Church.Called "the last great traditional designer and the first great modern designer," Church was one of the central figures in the development of the modern California garden. For the first time, West Coast designers based their work not on imitation of East Coast traditions, but on climatic, landscape, and lifestyle characteristics unique to California and the West. Gardens Are for People contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy and much practical advice
Now that Church's book has been reissued in paperback, a new generation can learn about his influential, indeed revolutionary, California Style. "Landscape architect Thomas Church wrote for contemporaries when he wrote "Gardens Are for People. Church, who helped transform opinion about gardens in the post-World War II era, was designing for American families and their real activities."--"House Beautiful
"A classic" according to A Customer. I loved to read this book. After reading it you can clearly see how much Thomas Church influenced the modern designers. I really enojoyed reading the needs of the clients for their garden and then how Church solved and designed great gardens based on t. "My grandfather was Thomas Church" according to A Customer. This is a revised version of the hardback printed in the 50's. It was revised by his long time assistant Grace Hall whom he trusted and adored. It has a more indepth look at his own home which still looks the same to this day. The original hardback ver
Thomas D. Church (1902-1978) was an internationally acclaimed landscape architect and the recipient of many awards during his lifetime. GraceHall was Church's assistant, and Michael Laurie is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.