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NotSoSimpleTheNewClassicalLandscape"MinimalistGardens,"byPeterWalker,SpacemakerPress,Washington,D.C.andCambridge,MA,1997,distributedbyWatson-GuptilPublicationsandHearstBooksInternational,pp.207,$35.ByCarterB.HorsleyPeterWalkerisoneofthegreatdesignpoetsofthe20thCenturyasthemorethan280colorillustrationsandphotographsinthislargeandhandsomepaperbacktestify.Morethan30ofWalker'sprojectsarepresentedinconsiderabledetail.BothhisownessayandanaccompanyingessayandprojectnotesbyLeahLevyilluminatemuchoftheartistic,philosophicandintellectualfoundationsofhisdesigns,buttheillustrationsreallyneedlittleexposition.Walker'sprojectsarebrilliantintegrationsofthenaturalandman-madeenvironmentsthataredistinctlymodernandabstract,attimesmysteriousandsometimesawesome."Minimalist"isaninappropriateadjectivetodescribethisworkforitisfartoorichinbeautyandpowertobelessthangrand.Butonemustrespecttheartist'sowninterpretationandhereWalkeriswonderfullyincisive,notonlyabouthisownoeuvre,butaboutmuchofmodernarchitectureand,inparticular,the"Minimalist"era/school.WhilenoneoftheprojectsareinNewYork,almostallofferexcitingcluestothethrillingpotentialcityscapesthatcanandshouldbewrought.AnyintelligentmayorshouldappointWalkerasthecity's"MasterDesigner,"withpowersoveralldevelopmentandplanning.Walker,ofcourse,isnottheonlygreatenvironmentaldesigner.OthersareMarthaSchwartzandMichaelHeizer.InheressayonWalker'swork,LevyfindstracesoftheNazcaLinesinPeruandStonehengeinEnglandinsomeofhiswork"anawarenessofandquestforconnectionwithearthlyandcelestialmysteries":"Therearemanyinstanceswhentheworkfocusesontheenigmaticqualitiesofnaturerepresentedbythesoundofwater,thestasisandweightofstone,rustlingchangesbythewind,blocks