Garden of Cosmic Speculation

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This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation 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 book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions...
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Overview

This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation 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 book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life.
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Jencks and his late spouse, Maggie Keswick, created the first true garden of the 21st century in Scotland at their Portrack home. Encompassing landscape, sculpture, flowers and trees, and paths, it is an amazing adventure into time, space, and life; the likes of Francis Crick, Werner Heisenberg, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and any other recent scientific deity would find it welcoming. Any garden might look spectacular in the summer, but few look stunning in the depths of winter, as this one does. The book itself sets a new standard for production with its exceptional beauty. In eight parts, Jencks explains the gestation of this locale and its meaning on an altogether different plane from any other garden on the planet. Jencks has certainly challenged landscape architects in this work to think in altogether different (and less local) ways in their art. How will they respond to this garden and its all-encompassing perspective? Only time will tell. In the meantime, if you can't rush off to Scotland, buy this book. It certainly is the most important landscape architecture document of the year.-Edward J. Valauskas, Lib. & Plant Info. Office, Chicago Botanic Garden Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780711225381
  • Publisher: Lincoln, Frances Limited
  • Publication date: 7/28/2005
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 805,636
  • Product dimensions: 9.72 (w) x 11.54 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 12
Pt. 1 Three Stories of a Garden 16
Pt. 2 The Creation of a Garden 26
Pt. 3 Where is the Universe Going? 84
Pt. 4 The No-Place of Death 132
Pt. 5 The Six Senses Get their DNA 144
Pt. 6 Ultimate Metaphors 168
Pt. 7 The Universe Cascade 188
Pt. 8 Tantalizing Speculation 234
Index 252
Instead of a Bibliography 256
Books 257
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