Shunmyo Nasuno

For a long time now, I've been dismayed by what I see when certain of my fellow watershapers attempt to incorporate "natural" elements into their pool designs.  The ubiquitous piles of rocks and the odd grottos slapped onto the ends of freeform pools are so common I can only conclude that too few of us know any better. This has led me to seek out design guidance that can teach us all how to do a better job of representing nature in our work - a quest that inevitably brought me to books on Japanese gardens.  What I've found here is a tradition filled with concepts that transcends cultural boundaries and can easily be applied to projects in any number of styles or settings.   It's all about the disciplined and detailed use of

For a long time now, I've been dismayed by what I see when certain of my fellow watershapers attempt to incorporate "natural" elements into their pool designs.  The ubiquitous piles of rocks and the odd grottos slapped onto the ends of freeform pools are so common I can only conclude that too few of us know any better. This has led me to seek out design guidance that can teach us all how to do a better job of representing nature in our work - a quest that inevitably brought me to books on Japanese gardens.  What I've found here is a tradition filled with concepts that transcends cultural boundaries and can easily be applied to projects in any number of styles or settings.   It's all about the disciplined and detailed use of