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Function Before Form

July 1, 2004
Late in 2003, landscape architect and watershaper Mark Holden set out on a personal mission to document some of Italy’s most beautiful watershapes. From Rome to Venice, he observed glorious uses of water in courtyards and plazas filled with great artwork and beautiful architecture – and in this article takes us on a guided tour of some of those spaces with a discussion of how the work of these past masters still influences today’s watershapes.