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1 online resource |
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Frontcover; Title Page; Contents; Traditions of Change: Japanese-Style Gardens Today; Chapter 1; Gardens of Vision-Lives of Insight: The Healing Worlds of HÅichi Kurisu; A Life in Gardens; Repairing the World: The Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital Garden; Eden on the Fourteenth Floor: A Garden Grows in Downtown Chicago; The Journey Begins: The DeVos Japanese Garden at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park; Chapter 2; Joy and Light: The Spiritual Gardens of Takeo Uesugi; The Accidental Garden Builder; Confluence in Three Dimensions: The Grand Hyatt Atlanta. |
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Light and Space by the Pacific: The Uyesugi Residence in MalibuFollowing the Path: The San Diego Friendship Garden; Chapter 3; The Nature of Gardens: David Slawson's Sense of Place; Finding Self, Evoking Landscape; Sage Mountain Sky: The Garden at the Aspen Institute; Landscapes for Evolved Living: Minnesota's North Shore at the Hoeschler Residence; Integrating Life and Landscape: An Ozark Glen at the Heinzelmann Residence; Mountain High: The Floating Cloud Bridge at Garvan Woodland Gardens; Chapter 4; Modernist Space: Shin Abe's Dynamically Balanced Gardens. |
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Creating Balance, Building a PracticeReverberations: The United Nations' Peace Bell Courtyard; An Intimate Journey: The Garden Path at a Private Washington, DC Residence; Inspiration for Reflection: Restorative Gardens at the Stoner Residence; On the Edge: Sculpting Water at the EF Building II, Cambridge, MA; Chapter 5; Garden Artistry: Marc Peter Keane's Reflections on Nature and Gardens; The "Lives" of the Eminent Garden Artist; Gardens as Journeys: The B Residence, Darien, CT; Forest-Ocean Garden: The Blum Residence, Irvington, NY; Dream Islands: The Z Residence, Stone Ridge, NY. |
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At Tiger Glen Garden: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell UniversityEndnotes; Acknowledgments; Select Bibliography. |
| Awards |
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2019 |
| Summary |
Japanese gardens are found throughout the world today'their unique forms now considered a universal art form. This stunning Japanese gardening book examines the work of five leading landscape architects in North America who are exploring the extraordinary power of Japanese-style garden design to create an immersive experience promoting personal and social well-being. Master garden designers Hoichi Kurisu, Takeo Uesugi, David Slawson, Shin Abe and Marc Keane have each interpreted the style and meaning of the Japanese garden in unique ways in their innovative designs for private, commercial and public spaces. Several recent Japanese-style gardens by each designer are featured in this book with detailed descriptions and sumptuous color photos. - Hoichi Kurisu'transformative spaces for spiritual and physical equilibrium. - Takeo Uesugi'bright, flowing gardens that evoke joyful living. - David Slawson'evocations of native place that fuse with the surrounding landscape. - Shin Abe'dynamically balanced "visual stories" that produce meaning and comfort. - Marc Keane'reflections on human connections with nature through the art of gardens. Also included are essays on the designers and mini-essays by them about gardens in Japan which have most inspired their work, as well as commentaries by patrons and visitors to their North American gardens. The book focuses on recently-created gardens to suggest how the art form is currently evolving, and to understand how Japanese garden design principles and practices are being adapted to suit the needs and ways of people living and working outside Japan today. |
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Gardens, Japanese.
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Landscape design -- North America.
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Landscape architects -- North America.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
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GARDENING -- Garden Design.
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GARDENING -- Landscape.
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Gardens, Japanese. (OCoLC)fst00937981
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Landscape architects. (OCoLC)fst00991793
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Landscape design. (OCoLC)fst00991884
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North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 4805313862 9784805313862 (OCoLC)970382834 |
| ISBN |
9781462919574 (electronic book) |
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146291957X (electronic book) |
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