Preface 1. Neolithic gardens & landscapes: 3500BCE-43 2. Romano-British gardens & landscapes: 43-1066 3. Medieval gardens & landscapes: 1066-1485 4. Renaissance gardens & landscapes: 1485-1660 5. Baroque gardens & landscapes: 1660-1750 6. Neoclassical gardens & landscapes: 1730-1794 7. Romantic gardens & landscapes: 1794-1880 8. Arts and Crafts gardens & landscapes: 1880-1970 9. Abstract modern gardens: 1925-1972 1925-1980 10. Post-Abstract and sustainable gardens: post-1980 Appendix I: Asia, Europe and the British Isles Appendix II: Names for styles and periods Appendix III Wollaton Hall: Garden history and creative conservation Michael Simonsen
Tom Turner edits the Gardenvisit.com website and teaches on the undergraduate and Masters programmes in garden history and landscape architecture at the University of Greenwich in London.
"A guide to an understanding of the ideas we bring to bear in
making our own gardens and enjoying those of others" - The RHS
Garden magazine"Tom Turner appears to be on a mission to write the
definitive historical account of gardens. He has already covered
European and Asian gardens, and has now delivered an account of the
development of gardens closer to home. The latest arrival delivers
a narrative mix of academic research interspersed with
idiosyncratic observations, balanced with photos and diagrams
articulating the key design principles of the reviewed sites and
historical periods."— Darryl Moore, Garden Design Journal
Review of Asian Gardens:"Here Turner—with his characteristic use of
summary diagrams and tightly structured analyses—charges through
polytheist, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, and Shinto gardens of
West, South, East, and North Asia, with a welcome concluding
chapter on abstract modernism. Some readers may be troubled by
Turner’s reductionist approach, yet his books pack much between
their covers in a manner that is at once quirky, refreshing, and
stimulating." - Journal of Australian Garden History
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