Marc Peter Keane

A designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, and the liquid state of the world. From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what...

Award-winning Japanese landscape architect Marc Peter Keane traces the history and design of tea gardens from T'ang China to the present day. Almost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. Drawing on his impressive career of garden construction across the United States and Japan, Marc Peter Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, from T'ang...

Marc Peter Keane's personal journey through 100 Japanese gardens, looking at them with a designer's eye. Matching some 400 colour photographs to brief, informed observations, renowned garden designer Marc Peter Keane walks us through 100 Japanese gardens, stopping along the way to note essential elements of design, technique, and culture. Covering everything from large-scale aspects of space and balance to...