Gardening Illustrated

Author: Ji Cheng
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Gardens and Landscapes is a landscape architecture book written by Ji Cheng, a renowned Ming Dynasty landscape designer, based on his years of experience in constructing gardens. The book first elaborates on the author's views on landscape design, then provides a detailed description of how to select sites, lay foundations, pave grounds, build mountains, and choose stones. It also includes over two hundred illustrations of patterns for constructing walls, paving grounds, creating doors and windows, and more. This book has provided a theoretical framework and a replicable model for later generations of landscape construction. The Illustrated Treatise on Gardens and Landscapes offers necessary annotations and explanations for Ji Cheng's original work to facilitate reading for modern audiences. Additionally, it includes about one hundred and fifty landscape images that visually interpret Ji Cheng's landscape design theories, complementing and enhancing the original text with its illustrations.