Experimenting Landscapes: Testing the Limits of the Garden uses 25 gardens from the International Garden Festival at Métis, Quebec, to examine how temporary festival installations function as a genuine laboratory for landscape design innovation.
About This Book
Garden festivals occupy a peculiar and productive position in landscape architecture: freed from the constraints of permanence and client briefs, designers can push materials, form, and concept further than most commissions allow. This book takes the International Garden Festival at Métis in northern Quebec — arguably the most significant such event in North America — as its primary lens, charting how these temporary installations have shaped emerging tendencies in contemporary landscape design. Through a curated selection of 25 gardens, Emily Waugh builds a case for the festival as a critical site of experimentation, relevant to practising landscape architects, garden designers, and students of the discipline alike.
Key Features
- 184 pages of illustrated garden projects and design analysis
- Authored by Emily Waugh
- 25 garden installations from the International Garden Festival, Métis, Quebec
- Published by Birkhäuser, [Details available upon request]
What You'll Discover
- How garden festivals create conditions for material and conceptual experimentation unavailable in conventional landscape commissions
- The role of the International Garden Festival at Métis as a North American proving ground for landscape design ideas
- The relationship between small-scale temporary installations and broader shifts in landscape design practice
- A close reading of 25 distinct gardens, demonstrating the range of approaches designers bring to the festival format
About the Author
Emily Waugh is the author of this focused study of garden festival culture and its influence on landscape design practice. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Flexicover
- Pages: 184
- Dimensions: 280 x 220 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783038219316
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, garden designers, and students seeking a critical framework for understanding how temporary installations shape the future of the discipline.