Invisible gardens : the search for modernism in the American landscape

Invisible gardens : the search for modernism in the American landscape / Peter Walker and Melanie Simo.

"Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthe...

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Main Authors: Walker, Peter, 1932- (Author), Simo, Melanie Louise, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1994]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Landscape architecture > United States > History > 20th century.
Landscape architects > United States > Biography.
Modernism (Art) > Influence.
Landscape architects
Landscape architecture
Modernism (Art) > Influence
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Legacy of Landscape Architecture : Art or Social Service?
  • The Garden as Social Vision
  • The Garden as Art
  • The Modern Transformation of Thomas Church
  • Beyond the American (or California) Dream
  • From Backyard to Center City
  • The Lone Classicist
  • The Modernization of the Schools
  • The Corporate Office, a New Organism for Practice: First Wave
  • The Environment: Science Overshadows Art
  • The Corporate Office, Second Wave.

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