The Japanese Garden Sophie Walker

Author and garden designer sophie walker brings fresh insight to this subject exploring the japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens ranging from ancient shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary zen designs.
The japanese garden sophie walker. The new york times book review dominique browning. Dispersed through different visual spreads are new essays from architects tadao andÅ and john pawson and artists such as lee ufan and anish kapoor. Author and garden designer sophie walker brings fresh insight to this subject exploring the japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens ranging from ancient shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary zen designs. Her expansive design for the de pont museum tilburg netherlands opened in september 2017 in celebration of the museum s 25 year anniversary.
Author sophie walker walks the reader through the elements including reflective surfaces and sculpture and design courtyards zen principles dry gardens of japanese gardens. Sophie walker s the japanese garden is an ambitious survey set in a framework that s both historical and thematic its elegant photographs are accompanied by impressively eccentric essays i wish this book could be three times as long and as large. In haywards heath uk sophie redesigned an area of borde hill gardens opened to the public in 2018. The secret beauty terror and power of japanese gardens garden designer sophie walker delves into the multifaceted nature of japanese gardens in her new book from phaidon.
Based in uk sophie makes gardens internationally. Sophie walker guides us through the japanese garden from buddhism to the bauhaus the garden designer and author discusses japan s rich traditions.