Thinking a modern landscape architecture West & East : Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi
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Thinking a modern landscape architecture West & East : Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi
ORO Editions, c2020
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The complex story of modern landscape architecture remains to be written, as does its precise definition. Thinking a Modern Landscape Architecture, West & East,
written by one of the field's most prolific and insightful authors,
provides a rare cross-cultural study that examines the written and
design contributions made by two of the movement's most influential
early protagonists: Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) in England - and
later the United States, and Sutemi Horiguchi (1896-1984) in Japan.
Tunnard's pioneering manifesto, Gardens in the Modern Landscape,
first published in 1938, laid out the thinking and provided the
direction for a landscape architecture engaged more strongly with
contemporary life, adopting ideas from modern art as well as the
historical gardens of Japan. Rather than a book, it was the architect
Horiguchi's 1934 essay The Garden of Autumn Grasses that
initiated a new direction for garden making in Japan, with a considered
and artful use of seasonal plants and a stronger connection to the
modern architecture it accompanied. Unlike Tunnard, who sought
inspiration and sources in contemporary art, Horiguchi looked to the
eighteen-century Rimpa School of painting for insights into the
composition of the new garden by carefully placing individual plants
against a simple background. Although the two theorists-practitioners
never met, Tunnard's interest in Japan, and use of Horiguchi's work as
illustrations, links them in a shared quest for a landscape architecture
appropriate to their times and respective countries.
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