Performance and appropriation

by Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape (27th 2003), Catherine Benoit, Sylvie Brosseau, Kendall H. Brown, Erik de Jong, Patrick Eyres, David Lambert, Susan Warren Lanman, Alessandro Tosi, Linda Walton

Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fa…