Tangier Gardens: Out of the Classroom into Real Life…via Plant Portals

di Edward Flaherty (Autore)

Smashwords Edition, 2022

If you are: -A nature lover or a landscape aficionado; -Curious about all things green—the environment, plants, gardening, horticulture; -Intrigued about the northwest Africa multi-cultural, mystical history of people and plants, then… THIS BOOK IS A MUST! IT IS FREE! DOWNLOAD IT NOW!! American Christopher Janus, his friends call him CJ, is a student in his university last year studying landscape architecture. CJ tells us his own story. It is a hard-to-believe story of his term-abroad design study wherein the northwest Africa landscape assaults him, forcing him to combat unforeseen challenges to his degree, his professional goals and even his life. Like most of us and especially landscape architecture students, CJ's into pedestrian towns and warm sandy beaches. For his last class, the term-abroad design study, he's on his way to Tangier, a town with sandy beaches on the Med and a historical pedestrian district, the medina. However, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar and landing in Tangier immediately upset his planned observe-and-check-the-box easy design study. He is thrown off balance and he has to start all over from scratch--no more easy study. With Andalusian legacies, languorous gardens, Moroccan markets and ancient medinas, this book brings Mediterranean life to the armchair traveler. The arcane weave? Instructors at university try to teach it to the students. But what happens when those students emerge into our contemporary real life dystopic world? That confrontation is the core of Tangier Gardens. And CJ is the student trying to understand that strange landscape surrounding him. As he begins to develop his own take on design, art, architecture and craft, his encounters with eccentric British and Russian horticulturists at the Hibiscus House, start CJ on a landscape architecture path some might call paranormal. Others, into plants, gardens and landscapes, would certainly call it normal.

• Autore: Edward Flaherty
• Editore: Smashwords Edition
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Cloud: Sì Scopri di più
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798985160017

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