

Surveying more than 20 projects, including greatest hits like the High Line and Hauser & Wirth Somerset, the volume juxtaposes detailed photography with the largest collection of his drawings ever published, generously offering a Technicolor road map to his oft-imitated schemes.

But there’s some serious method to that madness, as outlined in his revealing new monograph, Piet Oudolf at Work (Phaidon, $80).

Over the course of his decades-long career, the Dutch landscape maestro has upended conventions of green space, weaving perennials into seemingly untamed meadows and other horticultural marvels.
