The Contemporary Garden maps 300 exceptional gardens across more than forty countries, assembling the most geographically and stylistically diverse survey of contemporary garden design currently in print.
About This Book
Curated with an international team of horticultural experts, this large-format volume moves between the celebrated and the quietly remarkable — from the High Line and Changi Airport's garden to a hillside garden in Morocco by Umberto Pasti and a private upstate New York garden by Miranda Brooks for Anna Wintour. What gives the book its critical weight is its breadth of sensibility: naturalistic, minimalist, topiary, edible, community, dry, and botanical gardens are all represented, with each entry anchored by a full-page image and considered description. For landscape architects and garden designers, it reads as a living index of how contemporary garden design is negotiating a renewed relationship with the natural world.
Key Features
- 336 pages of large-format garden photography and descriptive profiles across forty-plus countries
- Features the work of Fiona Brockhoff, Dan Pearson, Sarah Price, Bernard Trainor, Miranda Brooks, and Umberto Pasti, among others
- Notable gardens include the High Line, Changi Airport Garden, and private commissions across Morocco and upstate New York
- Published by Phaidon
What You'll Discover
- How twelve distinct garden typologies — from naturalistic and wild to topiary and edible — are being interpreted by designers working across vastly different climates and cultures
- The contribution of both established landscape architects and emerging owner-makers, placing them in conversation across a single alphabetically organised survey
- How private garden commissions at the highest level balance aesthetic ambition with ecological sensibility
- The ways in which contemporary garden design — across urban, botanical, and community contexts — is reshaping our connection to the natural world
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 336
- Dimensions: 232 x 330 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781838668235
- Publisher: Phaidon
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, garden designers, horticulturalists, and design-literate readers seeking a rigorous global survey of contemporary garden practice.