Gardens in the Modern Landscape

Christopher Tunnard

• Paperback | Engels | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevai... Lees meer

The Planetary Garden and Other Writings

Gilles Clément

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• Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the ... Lees meer

Of Gardens

Paula Deitz

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• Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow read... Lees meer

Ideas of Chinese Gardens

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• Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at... Lees meer

Nature as Model

Luke Morgan

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• Salomon de Caus has been viewed as, variously, a Protestant martyr, the unsung inventor of the steam engine, one of the most important early hydraulic... Lees meer

The Gardens of Suzhou

Ron Henderson

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• Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleve... Lees meer

Theory of Garden Art

C C L Hirschfeld

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• C.C.L. Hirschfeld was perhaps the most important writer on gardens and landscape in eighteenth-century Germany. Acclaimed as the "father of landscape ... Lees meer

The Language of Fruit

Liz Bellamy

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• In The Language of Fruit , Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and f... Lees meer

The Fountain of Latona

Thomas F Hedin

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• Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the c... Lees meer

Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950

Wybe Kuitert

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• Moss, stone, trees, and sand arranged in striking or natural-looking compositions: the tradition of establishing and refining the landscape has been t... Lees meer

The Marvels of the World

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• Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antago... Lees meer

Cultivated Power

Elizabeth Hyde

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• Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, m... Lees meer

Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

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• Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments... Lees meer

La Foce

Benedetta Origo, Morna Livingston, Laurie Olin, John Dixon Hunt

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• The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of far... Lees meer

Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City

Amanda Shoaf Vincent

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• Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part ... Lees meer

Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden

Vera Schwarcz

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• The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and... Lees meer

The Flowering of the Landscape Garden

Mark Laird

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• The park of lawns, trees, and serpentine lakes in a picturesque composition of greens has long been viewed as the enduring achievement of eighteenth-c... Lees meer

Site, Sight, Insight

John Dixon Hunt

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• Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common ... Lees meer

A History of the Gardens of Versailles

Michel Baridon

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• The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west ax... Lees meer

Across the Open Field

Laurie Olin

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• Beautifully written and illustrated with intelligent charm . . . a quiet classic."-- Lees meer

The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960

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• The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on a vital and underappreciated era of landsca... Lees meer

Medici Gardens

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

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• Medici Gardens: From Making to Design challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the product... Lees meer

Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV

Robert W Berger, Thomas F Hedin

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• One of the functions of Louis XIV's Versailles was to provide a setting for the receptions of ambassadors, heads of state, and other visiting dignitar... Lees meer

Spaces in Translation

Christian Tagsold

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• One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka--or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, Lon... Lees meer