Nature and ideology
Subtitle: natural garden design in the twentieth century
By: edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.
Contributors: Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim.; Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (18th : 1995)
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Natural gardens -- Design -- Congresses.
Description: This volume explores the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications.

The desire to produce a natural garden design has fascinated many professional and lay designers, and the various contributions in this volume investigate their use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the immensely rich model that nature offers. The work of early twentieth-century natural garden advocates is discussed in regard to its relevance to contemporary design approaches.

These ideas of natural garden design helped shape much of twentieth-century landscape architecture in both the United States and Europe, and the ideologies underlying various concepts of natural gardens show how political, economic, and social developments influenced design programs and decisions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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