Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years Todays artists sculptors designers architects & gardeners explore age-old vernacular materials skills & sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that affirms an ideal of partnership with nature while celebrating layers of living in this multifaceted region Each work observes the logic of place as determined by climate geology flora & fauna architecture & land use Illustrated with hundreds of exceptional photographs by award- winning photographer Clive Nichols & drawing on nearly forty years of exploration by Louisa Jones this book offers a fresh vision of the Mediterranean past & future linking cultural diversity & natural balance as discovered in its gardens landscape design literature art & architecture