Louisa Jones,Clive Nichols
Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least 30,000 years. Millennia of human negotiations with the land prove that to â€œtread lightlyâ€ on the earth need not be at odds with our interface with nature.,Todayâ€™s landscape architects, designers, land artists, sculptors, and gardeners are taking inspiration from age-old materials, skills, and sites to produce landscape designs and art that celebrate living in this multifaceted region. All involve a strongly graphic vision of the landscape; are site-generated; and observe the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture, and land use.,Contemporary landscape designers and land artists from Nicole de VÃ©sian to Fernando Caruncho, Heidi Gildemeister to Paolo Pejrone, Andy Goldsworthy to Gilles ClÃ©ment, and Jacqueline Morabito to Ian Hamilton Finlay are featured.
Gardening,Horticulture
Mediterranean Landscape Design: Vernacular Contemporary