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• Title:Austere gardens : thoughts on landscape, restraint, & attending / Marc Treib.
  
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• Author/Creator:Treib, Marc, author.
  
• Published/Created:[San Francisco?] : Oro Editions, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB454 .T74 2016
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gardens.
  Landscape architecture.
  
• Edition:First editions.
  
• Description:107 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:Austere Gardens suggests that being open to other ways of observing and sensing can yield new insights and rewards, and that interest is found in places unassuming and overlooked as well as those complex and assertive. Perceiving is only one half of the story, however. Realising places using simple acts and reduced means is the other half. The history of garden-making reveals continued attempts to create an Eden, to surpass our given environment in abundance and delight, and by selected instruments transcend the constraints of site, topography, and climate. The alternative to this garden of inclusion lies in the landscapes of reduction and compression, for example the dry gardens of Japan. These might be termed austere gardens. The word austere, as used in this essay, does not imply asceticism, but merely modesty and restraint. Austere landscapes may first appear devoid of interest if noticed at all. To those who do not look beyond their surfaces, these sites, and the world outside them, usually appear plain and uninteresting, or even lacking of the very properties by which we define a garden. But there are sensual, aesthetic, and even philosophical, pleasures to be gained from these seemingly dull fields should we attempt to appreciate them. These qualities, normally associated with abundance and complexity, may be found in a different way, and at a different level, in austere terrain.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 102-106).
  
• ISBN:1935935380 paperback
  9781935935384 paperback