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"The Planetary Garden" and Other Writings
Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the Musée du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener. To care for and cultivate a plot of land, a capable gardener must observe in order to act and work with, rather than against, the natural ecosystem of the garden. In this sense, he suggests, we should think of the entire planet as a garden, and ourselves as its keepers, responsible for the care of its complexity and diversity of life. "The Planetary Garden" is an environmental manifesto that outlines Clément's interpretation of the laws that govern the natural world and the prin...
"The Planetary Garden" and Other Writings
In these three texts, brought together and translated into English for the first time, Gilles Clément outlines his interpretation of the laws that govern the natural world as well as the principles that should guide our stewardship of the global garden of Earth.
A Big Garden
Offers a quirky illustrated exploration of gardeners and gardens that presents facts and fanciful asides for every month of the year, and also challenges readers to find specific items in the large, detailed illustrations.
Fundamentals of Space Medicine
This readable text presents findings from the life science experiments conducted during and after space missions. It provides an insight into the space medical community and the real challenges that face the flight surgeon and life science investigator.
Planetary Gardens
This book includes Gilles Clement's guidelines for planetary gardens and includes nine examples of his gardens in France.
Artificial Gravity
This book reviews the principle and rationale for using artificial gravity during space missions, and describes the current options proposed, including a short-radius centrifuge contained within a spacecraft. Experts provide recommendations on the research needed to assess whether or not short-radius centrifuge workouts can help limit deconditioning of physiological systems. Many detailed illustrations are included.
Fundamentals of Space Biology
This book examines the effects of spaceflight at cellular and organism levels. Research on the effects of gravity - or its absence - and ionizing radiation on the evolution, development, and function of living organisms is presented in layman's terms. The book describes the benefits of space biology for basic and applied research to support human space exploration and the advantages of space as a laboratory for scientific, technological, and commercial research.
The Road to Le Tholonet
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two and fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged and shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden. They sit in their surrounding landscape, not as isolated islands but attached umbilically to it, sharing the geology, the weather, food, climate, local folklore, accen...
Overgrown
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas...
Cosmograms
"Réalisé en collaboration avec Jean-Christophe Royoux, et basé sur une vingtaine d'entretiens réalisés spécialement pour cet ouvrage, le livre COSMOGRAMS est l'extension de SEVEN MINUTES BEFORE. Rejouant la structure du film (continuité simultanée, convergence), cette expérience rassemble divers propos autour de la notion d'"espace-monde" contemporain.
