Garden design history > Post-abstract Post-modern gardens

Post-Abstract Garden Design and music

Finding Abstract Modernism clinical and boring, garden and landscape designers began to return to the use of styles and stories, including 'quotations' from Modernism itself. New themes have come from allegories, cosmology, personal beliefs, faiths and sustainability. Post-abstract designs are made with:

• rectilinear geometry

• curvilinear geometry

• landform sculpture

• steel

• glass

• stone

• native plant species

• symbolic habitats (eg prairies)