Essays

We will be regularly placing essays by O2 Landscapes staff members or associates in this section of the website. These reflect our respective interests, and cover subjects relating to design and horticulture. They also serve the purpose of explaining some of the influences that contribute to our work.

Our most recent essay, on the gardens of the Alhambra, was added to the website in July 2011. This essay includes a wide range of photographs of the Alhambra, a complex that Philip Smith was able to study at length whilst living in Granada in 2001.

List of Essays

• Adaptation of archaeological form to paving patterns
• Cultivating Northland's Threatened Plants
  
• Dimitris Pikionis and the Acropolis paths
• Gardens of the Alhambra
• Northern European naturalistic planting design as a prototype for NZ
• Scrub aesthetics
• Wildflowers of Waikumete
   

    Carlo Scarpa Essays

• The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa
• Brion Monumental Tomb
• Entrance to the Venice University Institute of Architecture
• Monument to the Female Resistance Fighter, Venice
• Museo di Castelvecchio
   

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