Christopher Tunnard (1910-79) was born in Canada and lived and worked in England as a garden designer and landscape architect before emigrating to the United States. He taught in the Department of Architecture at Harvard and, shifting his focus after the Second World War, became head of the Department of City Planning at Yale. John Dixon Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and author of many books, most recently A World of Gardens and The Afterlife of Gardens, the latter also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
8 Ebooks by John Dixon Hunt
Christopher Tunnard: Gardens in the Modern Landscape
Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the pri …
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€39.99
John Dixon Hunt: Site, Sight, Insight
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection’s common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and wh …
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€62.99
John Dixon Hunt: Garden and Grove
Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exc …
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€34.99
Hunt John Dixon Hunt: Afterlife of Gardens
Most books on the history of gardens describe the way that gardens have been created; by contrast, The Afterlife of Gardens examines the way that gardens have been experienced. Using examples from ma …
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€70.22
Hunt John Dixon Hunt: World of Gardens
A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the America …
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€57.69
Hunt John Dixon Hunt: Making of Place
Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honor the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explor …
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€51.08
Hunt John Dixon Hunt: John Evelyn
The great English writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620-1706) kept a diary all his life. Today, this diary is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultur …
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€28.76
Stephen H. Whiteman: Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, g …
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€77.99