Description Foreword by American Book Award Winner Charles Johnson Introduction by Tha sa Way, PhD Short story by New York Times Best Selling Author, Jamie Ford Academics, novelists, poets, and Garden enthusiasts examine the legacy of immigrant and nurseryman Fujitaro Kubota, whose unique gardens transformed Seattle\'s regional landscape in the 20th century.
A second book, from Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: the Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag (University of Washington Press 2015) explores the narrative of post-industrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture..
Jackson Book Award in 2012.
Her book, Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design (2009, University of Virginia Press) was awarded the J.
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She has published and lectured on feminist histories of landscape architecture and public space in cities.
THAISA WAY is an urban landscape historian teaching and researching history, theory, and design in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle.
GEMINA GARLAND-LEWIS is a photographer, EcoHealth researcher, and National Geographic Explorer with experience in 30 countries across six continents.
His third novel set in Seattle, Love and Other Consolations Prizes, was published last fall and Library Journal named it one of the Best Historical Fiction Novels of 2017.
Jamie\'s second book, Songs of Willow Frost, was also a national bestseller.
This multi-cultural tale was adapted by Book-It Repertory Theatre, and has recently been optioned for a stage musical in New York City, and for film, with George Takei serving as executive producer.
Hotel was named the #1 Book Club pick in 2010 by the American Bookseller Association and is now read widely in schools all across the country.
His debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list, won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction.
About the Author JAMIE Ford is an author most widely known for his bestselling Seattle-based novels.
Photographs by Gemina Garland-Lewis and Nathan Wirth are interwoven with original poetry by Samuel Green, Claudia Castro-Luna, and others to make this a unique book where every page presents a different view of Kubota\'s garden.
Rocks and stones pulsed with life, he said, and that energy is still apparent in his gardens today.
To Kubota, everything has spirit.
While incarcerated at Minidoka prison camp during World War II, Kubota also created a memorable Garden in the desert.
An innovator and artist, Kubota created the first "drive-through" Garden to capitalize on America\'s love for the automobile.
Today, this public park serves one of Washington\'s most diverse zip codes.
A self-taught gardener, Kubota built a thriving landscape business, eventually assembling 20 acres in south Seattle that he shaped into a beautiful and enduring Japanese garden.
Description Foreword by American Book Award Winner Charles Johnson Introduction by Tha sa Way, PhD Short story by New York Times Best Selling Author, Jamie Ford Academics, novelists, poets, and Garden enthusiasts examine the legacy of immigrant and nurseryman Fujitaro Kubota, whose unique gardens transformed Seattle\'s regional landscape in the 20th century
