Resources Design with Nature

Policy Framework

• The Florence Charter adopted by ICOMOS in 1982
• European Landscape Convention opened for signature by the Council of Europe in 2000
• IFLA-ICOMOS Document on Historic Urban Public Parks

The Japanese Garden

• Bring Mitchell, Wayembergh Josse, Japanese Gardens: Design and Meaning.
• Gunter Nitschke Japanese Gardens: Right Angle and Natural Form.
• Keane Marc, Japanese Garden Design.
• Kuitert Wybe, Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art.
• Shirane Haruo, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts.
• Tagsold Christian, Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture).
• Takei Jiro,Keane Marc Peter , Sakuteiki : Visions of the Japanese Garden.
• CSIRO resources: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Environment/Land-management/Indigenous/Indigenous-calendars
• Documentary on (Asian and Japanesse) gardens: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009364f

• Application for the Waza to Kokoro: Hands and Heart seminar, June 3-9, 2019, is open. Details at Japanesegarden.org/thecenter. Email: thecenter@japanesegarden.org

The Gardens of the Alhambra

• Eggleton, Laura. “History in the Making: The Ornament of the Alhambra and the Past-Facing Present.” Journal of Art Historiography 6 (2012): n. p.
• González Alcantud, José Antonio. “Social Memory of a World Heritage Site: the Alhambra of Granada.” International Social Science Journal 18 January 2012. n. p.
• Grabar, Oleg. The Alhambra. NY: Viking Press, 1978.
• Luis José García Pulido. El territorio de La Alhambra. Granada: Ed. Universidad de Granada, 2013.
• Menocal, María Rosa. Ornament of the World. NY: Little, Brown, 2003.
• Robinson, Cynthia. “Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, and Devotion in the Palace of the Lions.” Muqarnas XXV: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Celebration of Oleg Grabar's Eightieth Birthday. Leiden: Brill, 2008. pp. 187-214.
• Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes. University Park: Penn State UP, 2008.
• ---. Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
• ---. Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain. University Park: Penn State UP, 2000.
• Tresserras, Jordi Juan, et al. “Excavations in the Garden of Hippolytus at Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Spain).” Archaeology of Gardens in Roman Hispania project. Project Grant Report, 2004-2005. https://www.doaks.org/research/support-for-research/project-grants/reports/2004-2005/tresserras/view .
• Watson, Andrew. Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.