Capturing Essence
Virginia Burt Designs
- Includes more than 470 colour and black and white photographs and drawings that are at once inspiring, beautiful, and rich in meaning
- In a time of increasing anxiety and uncertainty, the book provides a reminder of nature’s power to provide healing and solace
- The book features extremely artful design that at once solves practical challenges while fostering human experience that is good for body and soul
- The book will serve as an inspiration to home gardeners as well as serve as a source book for landscape architects, and architects eager to embrace a more the distinctive approach to design that is a hallmark of Virginia Burt Designs
- Seventeen case studies in thoughtful, sustainable, environmentally sensitive design that demonstrate sensitivity to client, community, the earth
- An insightful foreword by Charles A. Birnbaum, esteemed landscape architect, urban designer, professor, and founder and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, situates the work of Virginia Burt and that of her firm within the tradition of the profession
- Special slip-cased edition, limited to 150 copies
The award-winning landscape architecture firm Virginia Burt Designs is widely celebrated for a diverse body of work—including landscapes and gardens for private individuals, therapeutic gardens for hospitals, estate master plans, and native landscape restoration, in both the United States and Canada—that is at once beautiful and profoundly meaningful. A holistic approach to design and realisation serves as the foundation to each project, expressing a respect for people and place while also attending to our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual experience of space. Published upon the firm’s 30th anniversary, Capturing Essence features 17 projects that collectively express the firm’s ethos and encapsulate the expansive nature of its work—from a site of transformation and environmental restoration at Acadia Point in Nova Scotia, a former whaling station and now place of renewal, to Schneider Healing Garden, expressly designed as a healing garden to support the mission of the Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland. The book provides an experience of these extraordinary spaces, through words and images, through touch and imagination, through story and inspiration. An invitingly tactile and sensuous object, Capturing Essence is a natural expression of the work of the firm, made with care and an attention to detail, to materials, to form, and to spirit.
- Publisher
- ORO Editions
- ISBN
- 9781966515685
- Publish date
- 14th Sep 2026
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World excluding USA, Canada, Australasia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan
- Size
- 342 mm x 239 mm
- Pages
- 248 Pages
- Illustrations
- 470 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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