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Garden Design: History, Principles, Elements, Practice
With advice developed during his 40-year career as a master gardener, detailed, vivid photography, and annotated instructional sketches, John Brookes demonstrates how you can transform any garden into a Well-Designed Garden. AUTHOR BIO: One of the most widely regarded and consistently innovative voices in garden design, John Brookes has been writing best-selling garden books since 1969. Most recently, he is the author of Small Gardens.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published October 9, 1991
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John Brookes
114 books9 followersJohn Andrew Brookes MBE was a garden and landscape designer. He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and designed thousands of gardens. He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design.
Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London.
Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholsen, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design.[2] He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues around the globe, including Iran, Argentina, Japan, Russia, and the US.
In 2004 Brookes was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his for contributions to Garden Design and Services to Horticulture.
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Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London.
Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholsen, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design.[2] He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues around the globe, including Iran, Argentina, Japan, Russia, and the US.
In 2004 Brookes was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his for contributions to Garden Design and Services to Horticulture.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_...]
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February 25, 2018
Ornamental gardens have it's history, logic of design and logic of the use, modern or ancient. Also, those who make ornamental gardens needs to express the ideas to the others. If working on ornamental gardens for a living one needs to charge for his job. Also, if making or using ornamental gardens one needs to maintain the room. So, all on this topic and more you will find in this excellent book.
December 28, 2021
Świetny podręcznik projektowania ogrodów
October 23, 2011
Good hands-on workbook showing how a design can be envisaged from conception to delivery.
Design principles (proportion, pattern, masses and voids, using grids).
Practical skills (drafing, measuring, drawing to scale, bringing the plan to life, elevations, projections).
Case study (country garden from site survey to three years post implementation)
Plan portfolio - 21 gardens designed by JB.
Design principles (proportion, pattern, masses and voids, using grids).
Practical skills (drafing, measuring, drawing to scale, bringing the plan to life, elevations, projections).
Case study (country garden from site survey to three years post implementation)
Plan portfolio - 21 gardens designed by JB.
April 15, 2013
A classic. Nothing new or trendy, but good, solid and reliable.
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