TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Louisa AU - Nichols,Clive TI - Mediterranean landscape design: vernacular contemporary SN - 9780500516119 (hbk) AV - SB472.45 .J66 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - London, New York PB - Thames & Hudson KW - Landscape design KW - Gardens KW - Mediterranean Region KW - fast KW - Landschaftsarchitektur KW - gnd KW - Garten KW - Pictorial works KW - Mittelmeerraum N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mountains -- Stoneworks -- Earthworks -- Woodworks -- Clipped greenery -- Matorral, maquis, meadow -- Field geometries -- Garden -- Seascapes -- Emporium -- Mesura N2 - Illustrated with hundreds of exceptional photographs by award-winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on nearly forty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, this book offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean, past and future, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art and architecture. Divided into eleven sections built around themes such as stoneworks, earthworks, woodworks and seascapes, each of the featured works observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture and land use ER -