The Afterlife of Gardens
Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this experience, though determined by the original design and its subsequent modifications, also augments the site's...
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Little attention is paid in design schools to what happens to a garden after its initial design and installation. What do its eventual uses become, and how does the design change over time? It is with these questions that The Afterlife of Gardens is concerned.
1A reception history of landscape architecture112The garden as virtual reality333Experiencing gardens and landscapes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili574Triggers and prompts in landscape architecture visitation775Verbal versus visual responses in garden visitation1136The role of movements in garden reception1457Moving along in the automobile1738The afterlife of gardens and the implied visitor191
