California Gardens: Creating a New Eden

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"David Streatfield's eloquent book is a welcome contribution not only to the history of the California pleasure garden but also to the literature of landscape criticism, for it suggests a more precise definition of the art.
Prof. Streatfield's intensive research into the origin and evolution of some fifty important California gardens, dating back more than two centuries, has enabled him to analyze the basic principles of the design process: the relationships, dimensions, and styles that the designer must choose from. His discussions of ecological versus aesthetic treatment, of traditional versus regional influences, give his work a historical and even a psychological depth that all students of landscape architecture, and particularly all serious writers and critics, will appreciate."
John B.Jackson, author of Discovering the Vcrnaaihir Laiidsciipe and The Necessity for Ruiiis and Other Topics
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CALIFORNIA GARDENS^ CREATING A NEW EDEN
David C. Streatfield
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"David Streatfield's eloquent book is a welcome contribution not only to the history of the California pleasure garden but also to the literature of landscape criticism, for it suggests a more precise definition of the art.
Prof. Streatfield's intensive research into the origin and evolution of some fifty important California gardens, dating back more than two centuries, has enabled him to analyze the basic principles of the design process: the relationships, dimensions, and styles that the designer must choose from. His discussions of ecological versus aesthetic treatment, of traditional versus regional influences, give his work a historical and even a psychological depth that all students of landscape architecture, and particularly all serious writers and critics, will appreciate."
John B.Jackson, author of Discovering the Vcrnaaihir Laiidsciipe and The Necessity for Ruiiis and Other Topics
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CALIFORNIA GARDENS^ CREATING A NEW EDEN
David C. Streatfield
With its lush photographs and authoritative text this definitive history captures the exuberant past and dynamic present of the California garden. Ranging from the pragmatic plantings of the Spanish missions through Victorian fantasies and Hollywood extravagances and culminating in up-to-the-minute drought-tolerant gardens, California Gardens: Creating a New Eden provides a thought-provoking, eye-dazzling chronicle of the state's diverse garden traditions.
Offering ideas and examples that will inspire all gardeners and garden lovers, David C. Streatfield recounts how amateurs, architects, landscape designers, and nurserymen have created the gardens of their dreams. His groundbreaking text—in preparation for over twenty years—illuminates how California's ecology, economy, and the importation of exotic plants and styles have shaped its gardens and ultimately influenced garden design around the world.
The various ways that landscape architecture and architecture have intertwined in the last two centuries are explored with particular insightfulness. Some of the finest architects and landscape architects of this century—Charles and Henry Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra,
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Thomas Church, Lockwood de Forest, Garrett Eckbo, and Florence Yoch—have shaped the landscape of California in distinctive ways.
Contemporary and historical color photographs by some of the country's best garden photographers are complemented by rare black-and-white archival illustrations and detailed plans. Two invaluable appendices provide biographies of the major designers and information about visiting the public gardens cited in the book.
About the Author
David C. Streatfield is chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, professor of landscape architecture and urban design and planning, and adjunct professor of architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. Prof Streatfield has also taught at Michigan State University; Clemson College, Clemson, South CaroHna; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Edinburgh. He was trained as an architect in England and as a landscape architect at the University of Pennsylvania. Vissza