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- The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie Keswick Jencks, on Maggie's land and their home together, Portrack House, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology.
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Explore the cosmos and the natural world through forty major areas, gardens, bridges, landforms, sculpture, terraces, fences and architectural works. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is open to the public one day a year, normally in May, via the Scotland’s Gardens charity scheme.
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie Keswick Jencks, on Maggie's land and their home together, Portrack House, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Jan 15, 2010 · A 30-acre garden near Dumfries, Scotland, that uses geometric shapes and fractals to represent the cosmos. Designed by Charles Jencks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, the garden is open to the public one day a year and supports a cancer care foundation.
Covering 30 acres, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, designed by the late Charles Jencks, uses nature to celebrate nature, both intellectually and through the senses, including the sense of humour. Directions: Portrack is one-and-a-half miles off the A76, five miles north of Dumfries.
They are large, intricate and eccentric and take 2 or 3 hours for even a quick scamper around - much longer to truly appreciate it. Different areas have different themes (such as the garden of Taking Leave of Your Senses) but all revolve around a common idea of mathematics, physics and cosmology.
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Dumfriesshire. James Fox met the creator of the garden, Charles Jencks, to discuss art and nature. In the late 1980s the American landscape architect, along with...
May 13, 2013 · Learn about the 30-acre garden designed by Charles Jencks, a landscape architect who interpreted complex scientific and mathematical ideas through nature. The garden is open once a year and features fractals, black holes, Big Bang, and more.
