Japanese Garden

Author(s): Sophie Walker

Gardening Landscape Plants

An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden.
The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.


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"Sophie Walker: a name to watch." -Independent "The act of seeing, and the concentration of seeing, takes an effort. The gardens impose that effort on you if you want to see them. It's another way of ordering your vision, and it slows down your vision." -Richard Serra "Japanese gardens present a world that is profoundly un-human. The driving principle is not anthropocentricism, but rather keeping in step with the providence of the universe." -Lee Ufan

General Fields

  • : 9780714874777
  • : Phaidon Press Limited
  • : Phaidon Press Ltd
  • : 1.37892
  • : August 2017
  • : 270mm X 205mm
  • : October 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 304
  • : 1
  • : Hardback
  • : Sophie Walker