Description
Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes.
Author: Robert E. Grese
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 06/25/1998
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 7.00h x 9.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780801859472
ISBN10: 0801859476
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Landscape
- Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms | General
- Gardening | General
About the Author
Robert E. Grese teaches landscape architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.