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Summary
Summary
"The New Tech Garden is a celebration of gardens in which man-made materials such as plastic, perspex, steel, glass, and textiles have been used to create gardens more in keeping with contemporary design and lifestyles. Award-winnning garden designer Paul Cooper has chosen the best examples of urban spaces for those who want an unconventional garden, or a garden for pleasure rather than constant labor.
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Library Journal Review
The image of the garden is ever changing, reflecting the styles, needs, and technology of the times. These three books are fine examples of the current approach to the planning, development, and realization of gardens that utilize human-made materials and innovative spatial design to create nontraditional settings. Cooper's The New Tech Garden employs materials and methods quite unlike anything in the past, e.g., metals; plastics; glass, recycled or new; synthetic fabrics; and solar panels. Examining various sites, both public and private, throughout the world, Cooper provides a glimpse into radical designs for unconventional spaces that result in instant, mobile, and architectural gardens. What is most interesting about these gardens, which the book effectively illustrates, is the feeling of serenity and space afforded by even the most unconventional designs. In The Modern Garden, English cultural historian Brown offers a more conventional work, tracing landscape design and its most important figures over the past century. A wide geographic range of gardens is featured, along with 11 "masterworks," specific sections examining in detail the work of one important artist, from Gropius and Barrag n to Kiley and Burle Marx. Political, cultural, and ecological thinking, which shaped modern garden movement in Europe in the 1920s and the United States in the 1930s, is well explored in the lucid text, which is accompanied by excellent photographs and extensive plans. Finally, Keeney's On the Nature of Things offers an image of landscape architecture from the studios of American professionals. Taking a much more theoretical approach than the other two works, this book deals with a sense of the community and its interaction with nature in the many public spaces addressed. Many of the sites, in the United States and across the world, are new or still in the planning stage, and the philosophy behind their construction is the major component of this work. The final decision as to the universality of the designs and their eventual utilization remains to be seen, but the author does present an interesting aspect of the unique discipline of the architecture of our landscape, external and internal. Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Foreward |
| Introduction |
| The World of Wine History |
| Growing Wine |
| Making Wine |
| Enjoying Wine |
| France |
| Italy |
| Spain |
| Portugal |
| Germany |
| England & Wales |
| Switzerland |
| Austria |
| Hungary |
| Czech Republic & Slovakia |
| Slovenia Croatia and the Balkans |
| Bulgaria |
| Romania |
| Former Soviet Republics |
| Greece |
| Eastern Med North Africa |
| North America |
| South America |
| Australia |
| New Zealand |
| South Africa |
| Asia |
| Glossary |
| Index Gazetteer |
