Lanzarote, Jardín de Cactus
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2017
edited by Patrizia Boschiero, Luigi Latini, Juan Manuel Palerm Salazar
cover price 20 euros
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Antiga Edizioni
Treviso 2017
172 pages
293 illustrations in colour and 26 black and white
ISBN 978-88-8435-002-2
Italian edition, ISBN 978-88-8435-000-8
Spanish edition, in collaboration with Centros de Arte, Cultura y Turismo-Cabildo de Lanzarote, Treviso-Arrecife 2018, ISBN 978-88-8435-104-3
The 2017 Carlo Scarpa Prize is dedicated to the little Jardín de Cactus on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, part of a unique system of cultivated quarries and craters embodying the fertile equilibrium between nature and culture on the island.
The Guatiza quarry garden is one of the most important projects realized by the artist César Manrique (1919-1992) using the traditional farming techniques of the island: terracing, spreading layers of picónor volcanic ash on the soil, raising stone windbreaks and cultivating plants.
Contents
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens, 1990-2017, 6
Regulations and Scientific Committee, 8
Lanzarote, Jardín de Cactus. Motivazione del Premio Carlo Scarpa, 9
Lázaro Sánchez-Pinto, The island of Lanzarote: volcanoes and life in evolution, 23
Juan Manuel Palerm Salazar, Lanzarote. Volcanoes, craters and cultivated quarries, 39
Juan Manuel Palerm Salazar, Jardín de Cactus, Guatiza, 1990, 61
The topographic survey of the Jardín de Cactus, Guatiza, 71
Antonio Manuel Martín Santos, From a quarry to a cactus garden, 86
Manlio Speciale, Cultivation of succulents, 91
Fernando Castro Borrego, César Manrique: phenomenology of the landscape, 96
Fernando Gómez Aguilera, Hyperactive landscapes: economy, art and tourism, 118
Juan Gopar, The re-created island. Notes on the insular genealogies of Lanzarote, 135
Wolfredo Wildpret de la Torre and Victoria Eugenia Martín Osorio, Protected plant landscapes in the Lanzarote Biosphere Reserve, 141
Luis Vicente Elías Pastor and Margarita Contreras Villaseñor, The landscape of vineyards on Lanzarote, 153
Leandro Caraballo Umpiérrez, Cochineal on Lanzarote, 162
Giuseppe Barbera, The cactus pear, 164
José Tito Rojo, Cactus gardens: from botanic collectionism to tourist attraction, 169
Cabildo de Lanzarote, Art, Culture and Tourism Centres of Lanzarote, 181
Fernando Gómez Aguilera, The César Manrique Foundation, and its importance as home to the legacy of the artist César Manrique, 190
Fernando Gómez Aguilera, César Manrique (1919-1992). Life, works, bibliography, 194
Leopoldo Tabares de Nava y Marín, The cartographic history of Lanzarote and the Canarian archipelago, 198
Bibliography, 204
Illustration references, 208
List of Authors, 209
International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2017, 210
