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| The Authentic Garden: Five Principles for Cultivating A Sense of Place | 
| Author: Claire Sawyers
Publisher: Timber Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 336814
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 285
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 7.6 x 1
ISBN: 0881928313
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6
EAN: 9780881928310
ASIN: 0881928313
Publication Date: December 1, 2007
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 A great design book for landscape architecture students and seasoned design professionals! December 30, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
As the director of the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, Claire Sawyers generalized her many years of international and domestic landscape design experience and her extensive horticultural knowledge in "The Authentic Garden: Five Principles for Cultivating A Sense of Place."
What are authentic gardens? They are "gardens that are both deeply rooted in their surroundings and deeply satisfying to their creators and owners." They are gardens that are "true to a specific time, place and culture."
Claire Sawyers described five principles to create authentic gardens: capture the sense of place (or "Genius Loci," a popular term to landscape architecture students and designers), derive beauty from function ("form follows function"), use humble or indigenous materials (sustainable and local materials), marry the inside to the outside (treat a building and its garden as different parts of the same overall design), and involve the visitor (user participation). These are timeless, universal principles that are common to architecture, landscape architecture and urban design and planning. Claire Sawyers also used the fine works by some famous designers like Edith Roberts, Elsa Rehmann, Frank Lloyd Wright to demonstrate how these principles can be used in garden design.
"The Authentic Garden: Five Principles for Cultivating A Sense of Place" has 288 pages and many fine interior color photographs. It is a great design book for landscape architecture students and seasoned design professionals!
Gang Chen, Author of "LEED AP Exam Guide" & "Planting Design Illustrated." LEED AP, AIA
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