Part biography, part monograph, Udo Weilacher's Visionary Gardens: Landscape by Ernst Cramer portrays one designer’s search for a modern language of landscape architecture. Born in 1898 and practicing until his death in 1980, Cramer’s life spanned the twentieth century, and his work evolved considerably in response to pressures from art and ecology, nativism and the international school. Visionary Gardens situates Cramer’s projects within a broad cultural milieu, tracing his path from romantic horticulturist to modernist garden designer to teacher of "pure form" at the Athenaeum in Lausanne...

 

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