39 Garden Plans: Unusual Gardens for an Ordinary House brings C.Th. Sørensen's 1966 Danish classic to English-speaking readers for the first time, presenting thirty-nine garden designs that range from farm gardens and Renaissance parterres to greenhouse complexes, each rooted in a single generative idea.
About This Book
What separates garden art from garden decoration? For Sørensen, it is the idea — a singular spatial concept that gives each design its logic and coherence. This English edition of his 1966 catalogue presents thirty-nine garden plans, each one accompanied by its originating inspiration. The constraints are deliberate: every design must be realisable within the grounds of an ordinary house, making this less a book of aspirational fantasy and more a rigorous taxonomy of what garden architecture can actually achieve. Landscape designers, architects, and students of spatial design will find it an enduring resource for thinking about enclosure, sequence, and the poetics of the outdoor room.
Key Features
- 288 pages of garden plans, each paired with the originating design concept
- Published by Blauwdruk Publishers, 2017
What You'll Discover
- How a single governing idea — rather than plant selection or ornament — determines the spatial character of a garden
- The breadth of typological possibility within a single constraint: designs range from farm gardens and castle park settings to Renaissance parterres and greenhouse complexes
- Sørensen's insistence that exceptional garden architecture is achievable at the domestic scale, not only in grand institutional commissions
- A working catalogue of spatial strategies in garden design that remains as generative today as it was in its original 1966 publication
About the Author
C.Th. Sørensen was a renowned Danish garden and landscape architect whose work is characterised by simplicity, originality, and spatial rigour. His 1966 publication established him as a significant theorist of garden architecture, and this volume stands as a testament to his influence on the discipline.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 250 x 330mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789492474636
- Publisher: Blauwdruk Publishers
- Publication Date: 2017
Perfect For: Landscape architects, garden designers, and architects with an interest in the spatial logic of designed outdoor environments, as well as students and academics working across landscape urbanism and garden history.