Imaginative Garden

Author: Lin Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book is a summary of 30 years of gardening work by the author and his colleagues in Fujian Province, as well as a beneficial exploration of the direction of modern gardening. The author's starting point is that any country's garden creation is composed of two parts: the external expression—“form” and the internal spirit—“meaning.” Since modern world gardening is increasingly moving toward integration and convergence, the imagery garden will inevitably become a gradual direction for the development of modern gardening in the 21st century. The author also firmly believes that the expansion of service objects and spatial environments, the increase of material expression methods, the diversification of viewing perspectives, and the garden expression style characterized by large plant color blocks and plant shaping—collectively constitute several typical features of modern imagery gardens. Imagery Garden is a powerful work that covers historical origins, causes, interpretations, characteristics, the beauty of modern imagery gardens, the classification of modern imagery gardens, the planning and design of modern imagery gardens, the application of inter-image gardens, and examples of modern imagery gardens. The book is divided into 10 chapters, with additional appendices and illustrations, making it extensive and impressive. It covers a wide range of topics, discussing both the past and present, as well as future directions. This is an innovative and powerful work on the exploration of new Chinese gardens, and an excellent starting point.