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Landscape as Spirit: Creating a Contemplative Garden
Martin Hakubai Mosko,Alxe Noden
Innovative and exciting approaches to garden and landscape design are found in the work of Martin Mosko, a landscape architect and Zen teacher working in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado. Mosko's work incorporates traditional Japanese garden design, mandala dynamics, and other Eastern cosmological concepts. Although embracing many traditions, his work is nonetheless strikingly original and both bold and subtle.
Mosko explains how to deploy the materials of the garden so that their outer arrangement reflects the inner mind. The chief paradigm he uses is the mandala, a symbolic picture of the ideal world used in some form in many of the world's cultures. Rocks, streams, plants, paths, and structures of the garden each take their place in the mandala as one of its five elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. The means to produce a balance of these elements is the mind conditioned by meditation and a clear understanding of its own nature: Inner harmony is expressed as outer beauty.
Mosko's approach to landscaping transforms middling and deflated or tepid areas into spots of majesty and magic; it can be employed in both large and small dimensions, and lends itself well to creating such spaces for both city and suburban dwellings. After explaining theory and method, the book leads us into five of Mosko's gardens, each alive with the energy and excitement he brings to his designs. Although located in different parts of the country and created in different styles, each garden is infused with intangible but clearly felt spirit.
This beautiful book is a resource for those who desire to create a contemplative garden or to better understand what it is to follow a contemplative path; it will be of interest to landscape architects and designers, anyone interested in the fusion of East and West in cultural expression, and garden lovers everywhere.
Hardcover: 176 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 10.70 x 10.34
Publisher: Weatherhill; (October 2003)
$40.00
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