Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design

"The twenty-nine landscapes chosen for this book have dramatically changed the way we look at designed outdoor spaces." "In the early years of the twentieth century landscape designers attempted to create a new style to reflect the modern age. Rejecting the past, they combined industrial materials with avant-garde aesthetics to create startling new spaces. Inspired by contemporary architecture and introducing Jungian ideas they produced some extraordinarily potent landscapes. But often visitors find them bewildering, their meanings obscure, their aesthetics alien." "Katie Campbell opens our eyes to the radical ideas, new materials and artistic intentions and achievements behind her chosen sites. She overturns our preconceptions and demonstrates the value and originality of these artworks." "All the sites still exist in some form and most can be visited. They range from Frank Lloyd Wright's fusion of architecture and landscape, through Martha Schwartz's incorporation of wit and irony in garden design to Richard Haag's attempts to create a public park reconciled with an abhorred industrial past."--BOOK JACKET.