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This is a ground-breaking addition to garden history that considers the way that gardens are experienced, rather than how they were created; it includes many illustrations of gardens from England, Europe, North America and the Far East, including Versailles, Stowe, Moulin-Joli and Yuan Ming Yuan.
| ISBN | 1861892187 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781861892188
(What's this?) | | Pages | 256 | | Publisher | Reaktion Books | | Weight (grammes) | 583 | | Imprint | Reaktion Books | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 208 | | Publication date | 24 Sep 2004 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 712.609 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly |
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| 1 | | A reception history of landscape architecture | | 11 | | 2 | | The garden as virtual reality | | 33 | | 3 | | Experiencing gardens and landscapes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili | | 57 | | 4 | | Triggers and prompts in landscape architecture visitation | | 77 | | 5 | | Verbal versus visual responses in garden visitation | | 113 | | 6 | | The role of movements in garden reception | | 145 | | 7 | | Moving along in the automobile | | 173 | | 8 | | The afterlife of gardens and the implied visitor | | 191 |
This intricately argued book (almost impossible to describe without oversimplifying) deals with cyberspace as well as the author's favourite 18th century and he stresses that response to gardens is visceral as well as intellectual. Historic Gardens Review John D. Hunt's book on the ways that gardens are (and have been) experienced by their visitors brings new insights to our understanding of garden history ... this book raises important, topical issues for all those concerned with the design, conservation and interpretation of designed landscapes. Journal of the Garden History Society  Be the first to write a customer review
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