For the past decade, garden and landscape design have seen a burgeoning of new ideas on space and the experience of the outdoors. Recent garden plans have embraced the latest thinking in materials, science, and interactive design, and have appropriated ideas from related disciplines such as architecture and product design, redefining and blurring the borders of nature and the man-made.

With distinctive projects by each featured designer, this book gives an encyclopedic look at the most advanced thinking in garden design, offering a rich archive for practitioners and enthusiasts alike. In addition to practice profiles, there are thematic sections that explain the underlying principles of these innovators’ highly individual approaches to creating outdoor space.The book’s introduction explains how a rising generation has rejected the Romantic, naturalistic tradition of Western garden design, favoring instead the influences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art, and Land Art.

Tim Richardson is an internationally respected landscape critic. Former landscape editor at Wallpaper, gardens editor at Country Life, and founding editor of New Eden magazine, he is the author of
The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz.

INCLUDING WORK BY

Atelier Big City, Montreal; Thomas Balsley, New York; Andy Cao, Los Angeles; Claude Cormier, Montreal; Topher Delaney, San Francisco; Gustafson-Porter, Seattle; Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles; Paula Hayes, New York; Patricia Johanson, New York; Ron Lutsko, San Francisco; Meyer & Silberberg, San Francisco; Nip Paysage, Montreal; Plant, Toronto; Mark Rios, Los Angeles; Janet Rosenberg, Toronto; Martha Schwartz, Boston; Ken Smith, New York; and Michael van Valkenburgh, New York