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The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World

Zhuang, Yue
Forbes, Alasdair
Charlesworth, Michael

Paperback

General ArchitectureGeneral World HistoryLandscape Architecture

ISBN10: 1350447420
ISBN13: 9781350447424
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.

In the current times of war, pandemic, climate change, and global anxiety, the value of the garden as a sanctuary, a space where we can find refuge in a natural environment, has taken on new and poignant meanings and has attracted increasing academic interest. Multidisciplinary and multicultural in scope, this book explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. Examining perspectives from scholars including art historians, architects, philosophers, landscape architects and garden practitioners, it reassess the restorative impact of the garden, whether understood from an individual, cultural or environmental point of view.

Ranging widely across Asia and Europe, its chapters examine ideas, narratives and practices from the 4th-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, to the 12th century Iranian polymath Omar Khayyam, through to the late 20th-century British artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. Drawing upon traditional Asian philosophies like Buddhism, Daoism and Sufism and combining these with more recent western philosophies, the aim is to question how the unique virtues of gardens and designed landscapes can help to poise, educate, and possibly transform attitudes and behaviours in a time of personal, environmental, or cultural crisis.

At once poetic, scholarly, and rigorous, this book provides insightful reading for students and researchers in landscape architecture, garden history, architectural history, art history, and cultural history.

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