Materials and Symbols

The nature theatre and the sacred, light and water, the sky and the earth are themes which run across myth and history, art and science. They identify ways of designing and memorizing, stimulating intercultural and landscape design comparisons. They are the garden's substance, a metaphor of landscape. The perception and the tools of expressing this perception of the garden and the meanings behind this phenomena such as tangible and intangible components. Today the garden-landscape relationship has expanded in global and ecological dimensions as a sustainable project. Garden and landscape are cultural nodes that metabolize artistic and social dimensions and are always open to new ideas and views.

Maria Adriana Giusti is a full Professor of Restoration at the Turin Politecnico. She is the Director of MSc Degree in Architecture/ Heritage Restoration and Enhancement and is on the teaching staff at the Graduate School of Advanced Studies in Cultural Heritage Technology and Management (IMT, Lucca). She mainly works in the garden and landscape sector, as designer and researcher. She has produced numerous publications on these topics. Of particular note is the trilogy Lo Specchio del Paradiso (with M. Fagiolo), Atlante delle grotte e dei ninfei in Italia (with V. Cazzato and M. Fagiolo) and Restauro dei giardini. Teorie e storia (2004).

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