The Gardens of Suzhou - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gardens of Suzhou write by Ron Henderson. This book was released on 2012-12-18. The Gardens of Suzhou available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of Suzhou, landscape architect and scholar Ron Henderson guides visitors through seventeen of these gardens. The book explores UNESCO world cultural heritage sites such as the Master of the Nets Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, and Garden of the Peaceful Mind, as well as other lesser-known but equally significant gardens in the Suzhou region. Unlike the acclaimed religious and imperial gardens found elsewhere in Asia, Suzhou's gardens were designed by scholars and intellectuals to be domestic spaces that drew upon China's rich visual and literary tradition, embedding cultural references within the landscapes. The elements of the gardens confront the visitor: rocks, trees, and walls are pushed into the foreground to compress and compact space, as if great hands had gathered a mountainous territory of rocky cliffs, forests, and streams, then squeezed it tightly until the entire region would fit into a small city garden. Henderson's commentary opens Suzhou's gardens, with their literary and musical references, to non-Chinese visitors. Drawing on years of intimate experience and study, he combines the history and spatial organization of each garden with personal insights into their rockeries, architecture, plants, and waters. Fully illustrated with newly drawn plans, maps, and original photographs, The Gardens of Suzhou invites visitors, researchers, and designers to pause and observe astonishing works from one of the world's greatest garden design traditions.
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classical Gardens of Suzhou write by Chaoxiong Feng. This book was released on 2007. The Classical Gardens of Suzhou available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou write by Dunzhen Liu. This book was released on 1993. Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. You will gain deep insight not only into the art of gardening in China, but into its historical significance within the context of gardening and landscape design worldwide.".
The Walls of Suzhou Gardens
The Walls of Suzhou Gardens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Walls of Suzhou Gardens write by Juhani Pallasmaa. This book was released on 2021. The Walls of Suzhou Gardens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lyrical portrait of texture, light and the passage of time at the Suzhou gardens, from the author of The Intimacy of Making In the classical gardens of Suzhou in China, surface transforms into space and walls become landscapes. In her journey through this UNESCO World Heritage Site, London-based Swiss French photographer Hélène Binet (born 1959) captures the traces of environmental influences on built structures. Her impressive series of photography shows how weather and time have turned blank walls into vivid depictions of nature. In Binet's images, architecture becomes the frame for imaginary landscapes. By interweaving foreground and background, the artist tells stories that shift between the two dimensions of the plane and the three dimensions of space. In an accompanying essay, architect and writer Juhani Pallasmaa captures the dreamlike quality of the photographs and emphasizes Binet's skill of balancing precision and vagueness to create images that stimulate the viewer's imagination.
The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (上海古典園林)
The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (上海古典園林) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (上海古典園林) write by Shelly Bryant. This book was released on 2016-03-01. The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (上海古典園林) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai’s classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and literature as much as in stone, rock, and earth. But these gardens have not remained static entities. Rather, they have been remodelled constantly since their inception. This book reflects this process within the constancy of traditional Chinese horticulture and reveals Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens as places representing wealth and social status, social and dynastic shifts, through falling family fortunes and political revolutions to search for a recovery of China’s ancient culture in the modern day. “Like a classical Chinese garden, this admirable and beautifully balanced book conjures up wider landscapes from within a small compass. It can be savoured on many levels: poetic and aesthetic no less than scholarly and intellectual. It is the next best thing to being guided through such gardens by Shelly Bryant herself.” —Lynn Pan, author of When True Love Came to China and Shanghai Style
