The Chinese Garden : : Garden Types for Contemporary Landscape Architecture / / Bianca Maria Rinaldi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Rinaldi, Bianca Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chinese gardens constitute an unparalleled repository of design solutions familiar throughout the world. They are frequently drawn upon as reference works, but often in a piecemeal and haphazard fashion and from botanical or art-historical vantage points. That is where the books of this new series come in. They present the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. Starting from the formidable beauty of the world’s most distinguished gardens, they point the way toward the essential compositional principles, the plants most commonly utilized and their most characteristic uses, and the possibilities for employing them in contemporary projects, thus providing readers with a rich source of inspiration for their own designs and creations. The panorama of "The Chinese Garden" stretches from the surviving historical gardens all the way to such modern examples as the garden at the Bank of China in Hong Kong (designed by I. M. Pei), Ai Weiwei’s Yiwu Riverbank Park, the Garden of Flowering Fragrance in the Los Angeles, California, region and the Garden of Awakening Orchids in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Evolution Typology -- Chapter 2. Composition and Effects -- Chapter 3. Elements -- Chapter 4. Reconfiguring the Chinese Garden -- Chapter 5. Short Portraits of Parks and Gardens -- APPENDIX