Geoffrey Jellicoe has long been regarded internationally as the pre-eminent landscape architect of our time. The recipient of many honors, including a knighthood, he now ranks among the century's leading artists in any medium. His working career spans more than six decades, and embraces a truly staggering variety of landscapes and gardens. Project by project, this authoritative monograph examines the definitive canon of Jellicoe's work. Divided into three major sections, the book chronicles Jellicoe's progress towards his remarkable late flowering after 1964, when he finally freed himself from the demands of running a formal practice to concentrate on developing his own unique vision and philosophy of man's relationship to his environment. The author's introduction provides an invaluable guide to the underlying vocabulary and idioms of Jellicoe's work: water, viewpoints, axes, paths, routes, groves, landmarks, secret gardens, elevation and gradation. Over fifty projects, both planned and fully realized, are described in detail, often with a preamble by the author, followed by Jellicoe's own comments, either drawn from his own unpublished papers or from his classic texts on landscape design. The projects include his masterworks: Shute House, Sutton Place, the Moody Gardens and the Atlanta Historical Gardens. Several complete designs have been specially photographed by Hugh Palmer to show the development of Geoffrey Jellicoe's work over years of growth and change, notably at Ditchley, St. Paul's Walden Bury and Shute. Where available, Geoffrey Jellicoe's own plans have been reprinted in full color, some on 6-page foldouts; many of these have never been reproduced in book form before. Michael Spens has enjoyed the benefit of considerable assistance from Geoffrey Jellicoe, whose own contribution to the book has been substantial. As a survey of the work of the century's foremost landscape architect, this volume is as important a contribution to the literature of landscape and garden design as his own The Landscape of Man, also published by Thames and Hudson.

The Complete Landscape Designs and Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe

Palmer, Hugh

Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan

Spens, Michael

Reference

Thames&Hudson

This volume looks at the landscape of 28  cultures, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to  the present day, and shows how the environment  is conditioned by the philosophy and religion of each civilization. A selection from Geoffrey  Jellicoe's "The Atlanta Historical  Garden" is included.

The landscape of man: Shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Thames and Hudson

Book by Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, Jellicoe, Susan

The Landscape of Man

Jellicoe, Susan

The Viking Press

Guelph Lectures on Landscape Design

Cornell Univ Pr

Originally written in 1925, this work is now published in a special edition intended to reach students and the wider market. It is illustrated with 26 surveys of key Renaissance gardens by such famous architects as Michelozzi, Bramante, Vignola and Scamozzi, and Palladio. The text includes a preliminary section on the design principles involved. It is intended to aid understanding of this key period in garden design.

Italian Gardens of the Renaissance

Shepherd, J.C.

Academy Editions Ltd

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