Tower and Garden

Lindisfarne. Tudor fort converted into country residence by Edwin Lutyens in 1901. His major project was to design the imperial government center of New Delhi. Garden designed by Gertrude Jeckyll. Replanting by National Trust from original plans lost and found again in Berkeley University Library. Archetypes. TVRRIS HORTVS

Tower in the North

Edlingham, Northumberland UK. Series – TVRRIS. (The tower appeared on the cover of my 1992 book Experiencing the Past – [Link] ) Archaeographic notes: There emerged in eighteenth-century Europe a distinctively modern aesthetic of ruin, part of an antiquarian and romantic sensibility. This series aims to question, reconfigure, reanimate the picturesque castle ruin in the…