Quotes by Tom Turner

About Tom Turner:

Tom Turner is an English landscape architect, garden designer and garden historian teaching at the University of Greenwich in London. He is the author of books and articles on landscape and gardens and is the editor of the Garden History Reference Encyclopedia CD and the online Gardens Guide. Educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, he studied landscape architecture under Frank Clark.
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Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

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The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the b...

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If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.

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Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.

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In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

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Author Bio

  • NameTom Turner
  • DescriptionBritish landscape architect
  • BornMay 5, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionArchitect