Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives by Diana Balmori

Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives by Diana Balmori

In this book of photographs and commentary on gardens built by homeless or impoverished New York City inhabitants, Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton liberate the work garden from its transitional association with wealth and leisure, and connect it to a more ephemeral but not less powerful group of constructions made by people deprived of their basic needs. In their reuse of nearly everything discarded, their sparing use of water and plant materials and their economical treatment of space, these gardens speak the languages of our times. All the gardens documented here are or were on the Lower East Side of New York and were built by either the homeless or by tenement dwellers and squatters who appropriated the spaces and turned them to their own use. They are not subsistence gardens, but gardens made up of found objects in an effort to mark off a space for pleasure, social activity or private retreat.

Diana Balmori, FASLA, is the founder of Balmori Associates Landscape and Urban Design, a New York-based experimental design firm that investigates the intersection of landscape and architecture, as well as nature and culture. Her work also strives to reintroduce landscape into the realm of the arts, with new formal goals. She is an architecture professor at Yale School of Architecture.

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ISBN 13	9780300057720
ISBN 10	0300057725
Title	Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives
Author	Diana Balmori
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	1993-10-27
Number of pages	160
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.