Poodling is a vernacular approach to pruning shrubbery. Topiary shears shrubs into a singular form geometric or figure; poodling, in contrast, treats each branch individually and shapes its leaves or needles into the forms that remain at their ends.
A select international group of landscape architects and historians discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work, contemporary and historical.
A cross-cultural study of the origins of modern landscape architecture in England, USA and Japan as seen through the work of Christopher Tunnard and Sutemi Horiguchi
Joseph Esherick was arguably the foremost San Francisco architect from the 1960s until his death in the late 1990s, following in the wake of William Wurster. Esherick established his own practice in the late 1940s and the firm produced a continuous stream of laudable buildings, among them houses appropriate to their site and times. Affected less by national and international fashion than by the exigencies of local climate, social demands, and suitable technology, Esherick produced a large number of truly classic residences.