Overgrown - Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening

A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches--from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist''s “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening....

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Harrisson, Julian Raxworthy, Raxworthy Julian
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9780262547123
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54712-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, GARDENING / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, DESIGN / History & Criticism, Landscape gardening, Landscape architecture and design, Individual designers or design groups