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on Dec 2, 2014
To the casual traveller journeying south on Highway 16 in New Zealand, a wall-like form on a hillside near Kaukapakapa wouldn't merit a second glance, yet to any astute art aficionado the sight is nothing short of a brake slamming epiphany. For the s...
on May 17, 2013 in: Events
10thNovember 2012Imperial College, LondonCementing the often uneasy relationship between gardens and architecture, is a task commonly accorded to garden designers, tasked to create a sense of harmony between them, or as the conference title suggested...
on May 9, 2013 in: Books
Dean HeraldImages PublishingISBN: 978-1864704068Those familiar with Flemings show gardens at Chelsea Flower Show over the past nine years, will know what to expect from this self-penned monograph by Dean Herald, the designer of their 2006 exhibit. Th...
on Aug 30, 2012 in: Events
SeatFort Mason Centre, San FranciscoSan Francisco based landscape designer Topher Delaney's career has successfully navigated the realms of the garden and art worlds, charting colourful new territories in private public commissions, as well creating...
on Aug 12, 2012
John Dixon Hunt Reaktion BooksISBN 978-1861898807 In the garden history world John Dixon Hunt is man of big ideas, creating rigorous theoretical frameworks for the analysis of gardens, both within their original context...
The career of Californian artist Robert Irwin has charted a formidable evolution over the past five decades. From an early dalliance in the late 1950's with Abstract Expressionism influenced by the work of Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston, he has...
on Nov 17, 2011
Over the past 15 years the Basque city of Bilbao has been involved in a comprehensive and well considered design driven overhaul of it's post-industrial landscape. The arrival of the Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum and Santiago Calatrava's Zubizuri b...
