Looking to incorporate unique styles of Asian garden design into your landscape?
Join landscape architect Harriet Henderson to learn about components of traditional and interpretive Asian gardens and how to adapt those components into your own garden in innovative ways. Explore the historic context and complexity of Asian gardens—with applications for the United States—and gain an understanding of the similarities and differences among Chinese, Korean, and Japanese gardens. Learn about rock placement in garden design with step-by-step approaches to construction, different varieties of Asian garden plants, and the use of such garden elements as walls, fences, walkways, lanterns, and basins.
This course counts as an elective in the Landscape Design certificate program.
Each weekly session will be recorded, and you will have access to the recordings and other online resources for six months following the end of the class.
If you're interested in continuing your learning, explore our Elements of Design Tour: Asian-Inspired Garden Design, scheduled to follow this course.
Certificate Information
This class serves as an elective component of our Landscape Design Certificate.
Location
Online, via Zoom
Instructor
Harriet Henderson
Harriet Henderson is a principal of Cushing & Henderson, a landscape architecture firm in Unionville, PA. She received a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University; was awarded the William F. Dreer Award for work/study of garden design during two years in Kyoto, Japan; and received a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Her residential and institutional landscape architecture practice emphasizes connections with horticulture and architecture, with design ranging from formal to naturalistic, and Western to Asian. She has taught a History of Gardens course at the Barnes Foundation for over 25 years, and lectured widely on garden design topics at Haverford College, Morris Arboretum, Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, University of Pennsylvania, and other eastern arboreta and colleges.
