Jens Jensen by Robert E. Grese
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- Pub. Date: May 1998
- 328pp
- Sales Rank: 486,534
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- Pub. Date: May 1998
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format: Paperback, 328pp
- Sales Rank: 486,534
- Series: Creating the North American Landscape Series
- ISBN-13: 9780801859472
- ISBN: 0801859476
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes — a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes.
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Jensen (1860-1951) was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Grese (landscape architecture, U. of Michigan) evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Robert E. Grese teaches landscape architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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