The Garden Of Cosmic Speculation

London, England: Francis Lincoln Limited, 2003. Hardcover. VG- (coffee/tea-like staining to upper textblock w/ remants to upper edge of closing index pgs. upper board edges discolored. rubbing to corners, spine ends & spine edges. dustjacket has speckled, coffee-like staining to spine & blotches to interior; edge-wear, rubbing to corners & spine ends). purple boards w/ slim stamped spine printing. illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. 256 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations. glossy purple & green pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. Pages have been inspected and staining appears to be isolated to closing index pages, though, there may be instances to upper edges of pages. "Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden's creation into an investigation into the revelations of recent science, using landscape and design to shed light on the way we can now conceive of the Universe. This book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life."--WorldCat.