The Contemporary Garden of Anna Scaravella

Detailing 21 amongst the designs she realised in the first two decades of her practice—Geometria e botanica is Anna Scaravella’s first book as well as a journey into the poetics and her approach to landscape design.

Touching on aspects such as her use of water ponds and boxwood topiary, her attention to the surrounding landscape and architecture, as well as her love for “grey-on-grey” mixed borders and hedges—it charts the evolution of her early practice, in which elements typical of Italian formal gardens are revisited eclectically and reworked a manner that’s more appropriate of English landscape gardens.

At the same time, a particular attention to context and the genius loci, that mixture of natural and spiritual elements that make up the specific atmosphere of a place and that will become more pronounced in her later practice, can also be detected