John Brookes: Garden and Landscape Designer

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John Brookes: Garden and Landscape Designer

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Barbara Simms

Format: Book
Pages: 208
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Date Published: Nov 2007
Stock Code: 63880
Binding: Hardback

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John Brookes is one of the most highly regarded, innovative and influential figures in garden and landscape design.In this book Barbara Simmsreveals all the influences that have come to bear on John's work, plotting the major stages of his career, from his apprenticeship with the Nottingham Corporation Parks Department in 1954, through his work with Brenda Colvin and Sylvia Crowe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his setting up of his own garden and landscape design practice. His first successes in London town gardens in the 1960s are charted, as well as his key designs and educational achievements around the globe throughout his career, right up to his current position as the doyen of contemporary garden designers. The second part of the book provides a fascinating insight into John Brookes' garden and landscape design work, by analysing 18 of his most significant designs and their execution. Written after extensive research, Barbara Simms summarises the history of each commission, the challenges John Brookes faced, and describes his design approach in meeting the brief. Some of John's original design sketches are reproduced and contemporary and recent photographs capture the development of each garden.

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Barbara Simms

Barbara Simms is a garden and landscape historian with a particular interest in the design, conservation and interpretation of landscapes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is a lecturer in garden history at Birkbeck College (University of London) and Cambridge University Institute of Education. A former owner of a T8 house in Wimbledon, Barbara recently completed a dissertation on landscape conservation on Span estates at the Architectural Association. She is editor of Garden History, the Journal of the Garden History Society and is currently writing a book on the garden designer John Brookes, to be published by Conran Octopus in 2007.