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Showcases some of the best designs of landscape architect Jan van der Horst
Inspiring title, full of ideas you can apply to your own garden
Lavishly illustrated by a top photographer

Movements in Green is a stunning overview of the most beautiful gardens designed by Jan van der Horst. It shows his most remarkable projects worldwide. The book is lavishly illustrated and treats a variety of gardens: from natural to romantic, from traditional to 'zen'. All the gardens included in the book are shown with the plans and complete information about the whole set-up. This makes it not only an inspiring book, but also a volume full of applicable ideas.

The first comprehensive survey of the subject in more than 20 years, this lavish volume documents nearly 100 Mughal sites and monuments in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

'Mughal Architecture & Gardens' gives an insight into what is undoubtedly one of the most impressive groups of monuments and gardens ever to be ascribed to a single royal lineage. Innovative and inspirational, these 16th and 17th century constructions demonstrate the staggering wealth and power of those responsible for their creation, notably the emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Mughal architecture is a remarkable hybrid that fuses building forms and decorative schemes from Iran and Central Asia with long-established Indian practice. The most famous examples are the Red Fort in Dehli and Taj Mahal in Agra. This beautifully illustrated book outlines the history of Mughal architecture and gardens, from stylistic developments under different emperors, to the geometric origins of Mughal design and decoration. Now the gardens are mostly lost, but Michell carefully depicts how they would have been; their structures and layouts, the favoured varieties of colourful flowers and scented plants, and the laborious but innovative methods sometimes used to create running water in areas without natural springs and streams.

The author gives particular attention to the major monuments and gardens in the imperial centres of Mughal power, namely Dehli, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Lahore. These sections are accompanied by specially commissioned architectural plans as well as over 250 stunning colour photographs. Written by a leading authority on Indian architecture, this magnificent book is the quintessential guide to Mughal architecture and garden design.

About the Authors:

George Michell is an architectural historian, specialising in ancient Indian architecture. He obtained his PhD from the School of Oriental African Studies, University of London, has directed courses on Asian architecture at the Architectural Association, London, and was co-editor of the journal 'Art and Archaeology Research Papers' from 1972 to 1982. Since the 1980s, he has co-directed an international team of scholars and students at Vijayanagara, the medieval Hindu site in Karnataka. George Michell has also lectured at universities and museums throughout the USA, Europe, India and Australia. Among his many publications are 'The Royal Palaces of India', 'Islamic Heritage of the Deccan', 'Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History' and 'Social Meaning and Palaces of Rajasthan'. Amit Pasricha lives in New Delhi and comes from a family of photographers. A well-known architectural and social documentary photographer, his work has been exhibited in India, London and New York. His photographs have also been published in several books, including 'Dome over India: Rashtrapati Bhavan', 'Horizons: The Tata-India Century' and 'India: Then & Now'. Pasricha's most recent publication is the panoramic collector's edition, 'The Monumental India Book', winner of the Indian Tourism Award, 2008.

Do you share your garden with a car? Worried that your neighbour’s trees are blocking your light? Is your garden too big? Too small? An awkward shape? Or maybe you just don’t know where to begin…

Whether you are grappling with a particular dilemma or just need some inspiration, this guide leads the way forward with sharp design advice and beautiful images. Read this book and the prospect of tackling your own garden will seem suddenly less daunting and more fun.

About the Author:

Kendra Wilson has access to some of the most remarkable gardens in England, while dissecting them for the American online publication Gardenista. With experience as a writer, picture editor and designer for Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler and Observer Food Monthly, she brings her unique perspective to the way gardens look and why they work.

Contents:

Introduction
I don’t know where to begin
I’m daunted by the garden I’ve inherited
My garden is overlooked on several sides
My garden is too small
My garden is a car park
I’ve spent all my money on the house
Free food for plants
My garden is excessively hot and dry
My garden is a passageway
I have room for one tree. What should it be?
My garden has no soil, just pots
My garden is too long and narrow
I’d like water without a water ‘feature’
Simple pools, rills, ponds
My garden is overshadowed by trees
I have nowhere to sit
I have high walls and railings
I don’t like gardening in the cold
Large front gardens: what’s the point?
My garden is full of old rubbish
Bomb-proof plants
My garden is under siege
Do painted walls cheer up a garden?
My garden is an awkward shape
My garden is like a child’s tea set
I detest orange in the garden
Are roses complicated?
Ways with roses
Does a cottage garden require a cottage?
Is a white garden a cliché?
Has decking been overdone?
I don’t have time to water regularly
How do cutting gardens work?
I’d like an elegant vegetable garden
Ways with willow and other pliable things
Will chickens destroy my garden?
 I garden on rock
My garden is like a bog
I want an English flower border
I’m worried by wasps
I hear that meadows are difficult
Gallery of grass
I am worried by my wisteria
Is formality out of the question?
I want trees for me, not the next generation
My garden collapses after June
There is nothing to look at in winter
My garden is on a steep slope
Inclines and changes of level
My garden is windy
My garden is too big
My garden is a field
I don’t like digging
My plants prefer to grow in the path
I need a fast-growing hedge
Interesting hedges
I don’t like mowing around trees
I’d like an orchard without the glut
My garden competes with the view
I am fed up with slugs
What can I plant instead of box?
I’d like a wild garden
Garden bestiary
I’m not really a flower person
I don’t like weeding
My garden is not relaxing
Glossary
Index
Voices
Resources

In a world dominated more and more by urban development, nature is increasingly seen as an inspiration for gardeners. Sustainability and biodiversity, currently high on the world’s agenda, are important aspects of natural-style gardening. In this beautiful new book, gardening expert Noël Kingsbury considers a variety of approaches to making gardens that celebrate nature. He discusses what is meant by ‘the natural look’, gives guidance on how to achieve it, and outlines the ideas and problems involved. Organized into thematic chapters, the authoritative text deals with all aspects of natural-style gardening, from prairies and meadows to water and sculpture. With stunning images by award-winning gardens photographer Nicola Browne, Natural Garden Style is essential for anyone wishing to take an ethical and sustainable approach to gardening and garden design.

• A timely in-depth exploration of approaches to garden design that take their inspiration from nature
• Includes a directory of natural-style gardens worldwide that are open to the public
• Features a special section on creating and maintaining your own natural-style garden

If you're looking for all the latest ideas in backyard design -- from inspiration to implementation -- here's the only reference book you'll ever need.

In this completely revised and updated version of Taunton's best-selling Backyard Idea Book -- you'll find hundreds of fresh ideas and unique solutions for making the most of your outdoor space.

From flagstone patios and redwood decks to cozy fireplaces, open-air kitchens, and spectacular garden rooms, the New Backyard Idea Book is full of inspiring color photos and practical advice to help you re-think, re-design and rejuvenate your backyard.

And for the children, there are lots of new attractions that go well beyond the backyard swing set, from newfangled slides, forts, bridges and climbing structures to a whole new breed of swimming pool.

From small improvements to major projects, here's the ultimate outdoor design book, with lots of creative strategies, new trends and innovative products to help you remake your backyard -- and rediscover the pleasures of outdoor living.

If you want to transform your backyard into a more beautiful, functional extension of your home, here's the perfect place to start.

Porches, Patios, and Decks

Dining and Entertaining

Garden Spaces

Pools and Kids Spaces

Backyard Buildings

Brazilian Roberto Burle Marx was indisputably one of the greatest garden and landscape architects of the twentieth century. His distinctive style, incorporating bold, abstract patterns and native flora, still influences garden and landscape projects around the world. In Brazil, he left a legacy of contemporary designers whose work is scarcely known outside the country – until now.

Presented with spectacular photographs of over thirty new gardens and landscapes across the country, from the coast to the hills, from the cities to the jungle, New Brazilian Gardens offers an exciting overview of a wealth of creative designers working in idioms and styles that are varied and individual, while acknowledging the genius of Burle Marx.

Dazzling swimming pools, serene urban escapes, stark minimalist hardscaping or exuberant planting – the projects illustrate the great diversity of Brazil’s gardens today, but also incorporate ideas that can be translated to any country.

Roberto Silva first considers the evolution of the Brazilian garden since Colonial times, then gardens are grouped into sections, Water, Planting, Abstraction and Sculpture, with each project presented in detail, including descriptions with the designer’s own plans, drawings and plant lists.

New Brazilian Gardens is for professional gardeners, amateurs and garden lovers everywhere.

Contents:
Corporate
008 2000 Avenue of the Stars
020 Blue Forest
028 Da Vinci Shiba Park Building
036 Lite-On Electronic Headquarters
...
Plazas, Streetscape and Transportation
064 Chattanooga 21st Century Waterfront
072 Hangzhou Hubin Commerce&Tourism District Master Plan
084 New Street Square
...
Parks and Recreational Facilities
126 Parc Du Sausset
136 Tokachi Ecology Park
...
Culture
164 Blue Stick Garden
168 Seattle Public Library
176 Shanghai University
...
Resort
212 The Ritz Carlton Bali Villas
224 Casa Morada Resort Hotel
232 Novotel Hotel
...
Residential
248 Chasse Terrein
252 Gate City Osaki
264 Junqueira OAP Assisted Homes
...
290 Credit

NEW Environment & Landscape Annual
The series introduce a variety of selected completed works to provide a general view of the present landscape architecture.

Ever since human beings discovered how to control the growth of plants, the garden has been a place in which they have found peace, enjoyed playing, cemented social relationships and revelled in sensory pleasure. In the garden we are communing nature and are experimenting with design and architecture. In times of increasing shortage of space but the concomitant desideratum for an oasis of calmness, only creativity will serve this purpose. new garden design keeps ready with innovative solutions and amazed with enthralling interpretations.

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bernard Maybeck is accented with a freehand composition of urns, cement pipes and rusty objects, as well as over a thousand species of plants. A grove of olive trees underplanted with rosemary and lavender fields gives personality to two acres surrounding a house designed by modernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.

Garden ideas spring from many sources, and new gardens today, abstract in design and with seemingly no connection to the formalities of a paradise garden or its Persian, Indian or Greco-Roman and Mediterranean antecedents, echoes them all. New Garden Design aims to show how many ancient lessons haven't been forgotten. These gardens are fertile ground for creation, perception and meditation.

Zahid Sardar is the design editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and has reported on garden, interior and architecture design for twenty years in the Bay Area. His work appears in Chronicle Magazine and other national and international design publications such as House & Garden, Western Interiors and Design, Elle Décor, Architecture, Metropolis, Elle Decoration and Schoner Wohnen magazines. He has designed, authored or contributed to several books on design and culture, including San Francisco Modern, Textile Arts of India, and Three Stories of the Raj. Sardar has also lectured at the Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley Extension program and at garden seminars at the Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco, as well as for The Garden Conservancy in Northern California. He lives in San Francisco.

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Provence today is a paradise for garden makers, a natural haven where designers from all over the world mingle with homegrown family gardeners and local horticulturists. Few places have seen as many contemporary garden creations, in as wide a variety: from picturesque to minimalist, private to public, suburban plot to rural field, miniature landscape to vast environment. New Gardens in ProvenceV features 30 of the most extraordinary recent gardens in this remarkable region. Written by Louisa Jones, a specialist in Provencal food and culture and author of the now-classic Gardens in Provence, this breathtaking book visits new gardens along the Côte d’Azur, in Marseilles, Saint-Rémy, and Aix, and throughout the gorgeous countryside of southeastern France. Almost 300 stunning photographs take us behind the garden gate to experience the beauty of meadow and woodland tableaux, magnificent stone terracing, formal topiary arrangements, lush flowerbeds, and even a mountainside project by artist Andy Goldsworthy.

While these man-made landscapes may reflect international trends in garden design, they never lose their harmony with the countryside. As this beautiful book demonstrates, today’s gardens are not only a reflection of the region’s “sense of place,” but also an integral part of the Provencal art de vivre.

Landscape architecture today is a broad range of very different uses of free spaces: sometimes strict, sometimes playful, powerful or reserved, provocative or almost unnoticeable. The title reflects the aesthetic and also ecological effects of landscape architecture upon public spaces. The one thing all the landscape architects whose projects are in the book have in common is that they all create spaces for people. The title New Landscape Architecture that is published in the series Architecture in Focus presents a wide range of contemporary projects among these are landscape parks and horticultural shows, gardens and courtyards, squares and promenades, as well as open spaces for health, recreation and public life. The publication provides an overview of eighty ways of structuring and designing open spaces and illustrates these projects by means of texts, photographs, plans and drawings.

Landscape architecture runs the gamut of very different presentations of free spaces: sometimes strict, sometimes playful, powerful or reserved, provocative or almost unnoticeable. It comprises spacious natural and cultural landscapes, peaceful, almost intimate inner courtyards, town squares and parks, and installations outside buildings where people live and work. New Landscape Architecture reflects on the aesthetic and ecological effects of landscape architecture on public spaces. The publication provides an overview of more than one hundred ways of structuring free spaces from the German speaking countries, such as the outdoor installations of the Allianz Arena in Munich, the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Landesgartenschau 2006 (2006 State Horticulture Show) in Wernigerode and the redesigned lake basin in Zurich. Detailed text, photographs, plans, and drawings provide insights into each project. The one thing all these projects have in common is that they create and structure free spaces as spaces for people to live in.

The patio is an outdoor space situated within a house that can have a number of uses, although in the past it served merely as a distributor of space of for ventilating and illuminating the parts furthers away from the facade with natural light. Nowadays, architets have rethought this space and have adapted it to new uses, even in regions with a cool climate and less tradition of living outdoors. The sensation of spaciousness and good lighting acquired by a home giving on to a patio, however small, is one of the reasons why the latter has become more widespread. The patio can also serve to seperate the daytime area from the night-time one, or ensure that an outdoor space can be enjoyed free from prying eyes. So, the patio has become one more room in a house, standing out from the others through its lack of roof and its primary function as a place intended for relaxtion.

As a filter that smoothly merges interior and exterior, terraces have become one of the most important complemantary spaces in today's contemporary house. Whether cantilevered, open or covered, as a wide extension of the ground floor or as roof gardens in residential buildings, terraces maximise the sense of space by partially seizing outdoor areas. This book is a showcase of the multiple design possibilities offered by these privileged spaces; an entertaining, social and contemplative place that improves the quality of life in every home.