The Wirtz Gardens - 2 V - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9076704368 ISBN 13 : 9789076704364

Editeur : Exhibitions International, 2011

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Het eerste boek over het werk van deze tuinarchitect met een selectie van private- en publieke tuinen. Jacques Wirtz begon zijn praktijk in 1948 en wordt nu opgevolgd door een volgende generatie. Het getoonde werk bevat naast residenti�le opdrachten in binnen- en buitenland ook minder bekende openbare parken, o.a. de Koning Albert II laan te Brussel, de Carrousel tuinen in Parijs, maar ook recent werk zoals de tuinen van Alnwick Castle in Groot Brittani�. De fotografie is van de Chileense kunstfotograaf, Marco Valdivia, leerling van Bill Brandt, teksten van de Engelse auteur Patrick Taylor en layout door Christian Diener. Het werk wordt voorgesteld in 2 banden in een foedraal met een totaal van +/- 600 pagina's.

The first book about the work of this landscape architect, with a selection of both private and public gardens.
Jacques Wirtz started his practice in 1948 and is now succeeded by the next generation.
The published work, apart from residential assignments in Belgium and abroad, also contains less known public parks, such as the Avenue Roi Albert II in Brussels and the Carrousel gardens in Paris, as well as more recent work, such as the Ainwick Castle gardens in the UK.
The Chilean art photographer and Bill Bandt-follower Marco Valdivia took the photographs for this book, texts are from the English author Patrick Taylor, and layout was in the hands of Christian Diener.
This book of app. 600 pages is presented in a case with two separate volumes.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Marco Antonio Valdivia b. 1947 Antofagasta, Chile, Fine Arts Studies at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, at Yale and at the Royal College of Art in London with Bill Brandt. Active as a photographer and a painter. Patrick Taylor was born in France in 1938 and brought up in Scotland where he studied English Literature at Edinburgh University. After a career in academic publishing he became a garden writer specialising in design, garden history and garden plants. He is on the committee of the Royal Horticultural Society Library and lives and gardens in Somerset. Jacques Wirtz b. 1924 Antwerp Studied Landscape Architecture and Horticulture at the Tuinbouwschool, Vilvoorde. Has worked since 1950 as a landscape architect in Schoten, Belgium. Founded the contracting and design firms of Wirtz Landscape Architecture and Wirtz International which have designed and built gardens in Belgium and neighbouring countries, Spain, Portugal, England, Switzerland and the USA. Martin Wirtz b. 1963 Schoten Studied Landscape Architecture at the Tuinbouwschool, Melle, Has worked since 1986 as a landscape architect for Wirtz Landscape Architecture and Wirtz International. Peter Wirtz b. 1961 Schoten Studied Music, and later Landscape Architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Has worked since 1990 as a landscape architect for Wirtz Landscape Architecture and Wirtz International.

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