The Modern Garden

The Outdoor Architecture of Mid-Century America

PierLuigi Serraino

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Rizzoli International Publications
01 October 2024

Landscape gardening

Visionary landscape architecture and garden design at mid-century in North America is captured by the greats of the era, including Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller in many previously unpublished photographs.

The treasures of mid-century American architecture have long been celebrated. Less appreciated has been the landscape design that provides the framing for these masterworks. But more than frame, landscape architecture is an art worthy of the spotlight, particularly at mid-century, when the notion that “gardens are outdoor spaces for people to live in” was championed and brought to the fore; now gardens and landscapes are not just external attributes to the house but a continuation of it and its living spaces in a relationship of symbiosis, with its pools and terraces, its winding lawns, and its partly enclosed room-like spaces flanked by brick or stone or plantings in a range of colors and forms.

Approximately seventy-five mostly residential projects are thoroughly documented and recounted. Landscape architects whose work is featured include Thomas Church, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo, among others. Highlights include the dramatic surrounds of Richard Neutra’s Perkins House in its Pasadena hillside setting and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marin County Civic Center, where environment and building comingle in an extraordinary modernist vision of the future made real.

This book is both a wishful gesture toward a realignment of building with nature and a must-have for anyone with a visceral appreciation for a designed environment understood as an integrated whole. Ultimately, the book underlines the fundamental importance of gardens and landscape design, intended in the widest possible sense, for the quality of living of all individuals.

By: PierLuigi Serraino
Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 254mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780847835881
ISBN 10: 084783588X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pierluigi Serraino is a practicing architect, author, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reviews for The Modern Garden: The Outdoor Architecture of Mid-Century America

""Perhaps most important, The Modern Garden is an excellent reference for the home gardener or professional designer creating a garden around a modern house. Flipping through these vintage landscapes, it’s hard not to notice how dynamic and playful the gardens are and in turn, to desire to recreate their spirit today. “This book resets our memory to understand how much we have lost along the way,” says Serraino."" ~ GARDENISTA