This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to ...
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This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life.
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Fair. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Ships promptly with care! Dust jacket is missing! Clean, crisp, bright pages. Binding is split at 5th page toward the bottom. All pages are firmly attached. Hardcover has moderate wear with sun fading at the top edges. Edges have scuffing and bumping to corners. Apparently there was a paper book cover added for protection. When it was removed there is scuffing and remnants to the inside of front and back cover. This remains a completely readable book.
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VG-(coffee/tea-like staining to upper textblock w/ remants to upper edge of closing index pgs. upper board edges discolored. rubbing to corners, spine ends & spine edges. dustjacket has speckled, coffee-like staining to spine & blotches to interior;... Purple boards w/ slim stamped spine printing. illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. 256 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations. glossy purple & green pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. Pages have been inspected and staining appears to be isolated to closing index pages, though, there may be instances to upper edges of pages. "Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life."--WorldCat.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1650grams, ISBN: 9780711225381.
