http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog News and debate from Gardenvisit.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:33:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes the best way to see something - is to see it differently. Thanks to Christo and his project Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland 1997-98    the humble tree can be seen more clearly as part of the three dimensional compositon of space. The exaggerated sense of presence wrapping ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/11/07/when-is-a-tree-not-a-tree/ [caption id="attachment_3062" align="alignright" width="775" caption="The Olympic Games should be re-formed on a Delphic or Celtic model"][/caption] According to Wiki the Pythian Games at Delphi: "were founded sometime in the 6th century BCE, and, unlike the Olympic Games, also featured competitions for music and poetry. The music and poetry competitions pre-dated the ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/11/02/pythian-games-and-olympic-games-culture-and-athletics/  http://sojamo.tumblr.com/post/74728983/synetic-textile-architecture-environmetally The Made of Light project by Speirs Major and Associates Lighting Architects  http://www.madeoflight.com/mol/site_map.htm is a wonderful e-book that discusses the relationship between architecture and light in 12 simple themes. 1. Source - natural and artifical 2. Contrast - light and darkness 3. Surface - light and texture 4. Colour - spectral colour 5. Movement - where time meets ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/30/light-2c-by/ Charles Jencks has been making the most interesting postmodern garden in Britain, with the Prince of Wales Highgrove garden as its only rival. Jencks, as the leading theorist of postmodernism, has the stronger theoretical base and I daresay there is not much to chose between the gardens with regard to ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/28/charles-jencks-portrack-garden-of-cosmic-speculation/ http://www.archtracker.com/the-garden-house-takeshi-hosaka-architects/2009/04/ Apart from what looks what looks unfortuneately like artifical turf on the roof - the Garden House by Takeshi Hosaka Architects with its tight triangular plan is a surprise and delight! Definitely a garden for my soul! The living spaces are designed around the edges of an enclosed garden courtyard, ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/27/zen-garden-as-house/ [caption id="attachment_2501" align="aligncenter" width="775" caption="The cover of The Garden At Highgrove by the Prince of Wales and Candida Lycett Green illustrates the postmodern character of even the central vista (the cedar tree has since died)"][/caption] Gods bless the Prince of Wales I once wrote that 'Royal leadership in the art of garden ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/25/prince-charles-highgrove-postmodern-garden-design/ The living green bridge was made from the branches of two India Rubber trees Ficus elastica. http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/24/the-greenest-bridge-ever-built/ How will we define the gardens of the future if many are no longer dominated by greenery? See Kengo Kuma & Associates water/glass villa http://www.e-architect.co.uk/japan/japanese_houses.htm Do plants have to be vegetable? Solar panels reminiscent of vegetation and slim line turbines feature as technological 'plants' in the Lotus Garden for Seoul. http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/lotus-garden-for-seoul/ What ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/23/gardens-for-the-soul/ What is the future of water architecture? [  http://wiki.provisionslibrary.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/06/water-architecture-a-floating-alternative-for-the-future/ ] Surely it is zen. http://www.whatsonyourplate.msstate.edu/architecture/water.html Or.... http://www.cmoa.org/exhibitions/popup/diller.html Corbusier's influence continues to inspire and to produce some of the most evocative architecture sensitive to its landscape setting. The building does not dominate the landscape, rather the landscape is both shield and platform. Garden is both ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/23/living-with-green-and-blue/ We have begun updating the list of 100 Best Books on Landscape Architecture and would be pleased to have suggestions for additions - since it has does not yet have 100 books. There are overlaps with garden design, urban design, architecture and planning. For the convenience of second hand book ... http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/10/21/hundred-best-books-on-landscape-architecture/