Noguchi's Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture is the first comprehensive study of the landscapes designed by Isamu Noguchi — an artist who refused the boundary between sculpture and site, treating space itself as the primary material of environmental design.
About This Book
Isamu Noguchi made no distinction between design, craft, and fine art — a position that placed his landscape work outside conventional practice yet produced some of the twentieth century's most iconic garden designs. This book traces that body of work from his earliest environmental projects through to the landscapes of his later maturity, examining how an artist who relied on intuition rather than objective analysis shaped space with the sensibility of a sculptor. For architects, landscape architects, and design historians, it is an essential account of how formal and spatial thinking — rather than horticultural convention — can generate places of lasting consequence.
Key Features
- 304 pages of scholarly analysis and documentation of Noguchi's landscape and garden designs
- Author: Marc Treib
- Published by ORO Editions, ISBN: 9781957183992
What You'll Discover
- How Noguchi conceived landscape design as a spatial and formal art, with space as its primary vehicle rather than planting or programme
- The relationship between his sculptural practice and his environmental work, and why he saw both as continuous rather than distinct
- Why Noguchi occupies an unusual position in the history of landscape architecture — celebrated but peripheral to its mainstream conventions
- The evolution of his design thinking across a career that spanned his earliest environmental projects to the works of his later maturity
About the Author
Marc Treib is the author of this study. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 25.4 x 25.4 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781957183992
- Publisher: ORO Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, architects, and design historians with an interest in twentieth-century modernism, the intersection of sculpture and site, and artists who worked across disciplinary boundaries.