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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

By Charles Jencks

Book information

Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Year
2009
ISBN
9780711225381, 0711225389, 9780711222168, 0711222169
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
76 MB (79209822 bytes)
Pages
255\264
Library
Internet Archive
Time added
2021-07-06 00:19:07

Description

Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life.

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