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La Villa
Av Bartolomeo Taegio, Thomas E. Beck
E-bok, 2011
1192 kr
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Published in 1559 and appearing here for the first time in English, La Villa is a rare source of Renaissance landscape theory. Written by Bartolomeo Taegio, a Milanese jurist and man of letters, after his banishment (possibly for murder, Thomas E. Beck speculates), the text takes the form of a …
Cultivated Power
Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
E-bok, 2016
1058 kr
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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, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, …
Essay on Gardens
A Chapter in the French Picturesque
Av Claude-Henri Watelet, Samuel Danon
E-bok, 2013
688 kr
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Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning …
Flora's Empire
British Gardens in India
E-bok, 2012
1125 kr
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Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple …
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Av Paula Deitz
E-bok, 2011
562 kr
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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 readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home …
Gardens of Suzhou
E-bok, 2012
504 kr
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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 eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of …
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
E-bok, 2011
652 kr
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Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes immerses the reader in the world of the …
Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island
E-bok, 2012
1192 kr
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Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- …
Unearthed
The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates
E-bok, 2013
1314 kr
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The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to London's 2012 Olympic Park. Founded by George Hargreaves in 1983, this team of designers has transformed numerous abandoned sites into topographically …
Across the Open Field
Essays Drawn from English Landscapes
Av Laurie Olin
E-bok, 2012
1175 kr
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"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied …
Theory in Landscape Architecture
A Reader
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures, …
World of André Le Nôtre
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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The gardens of Versailles-along with the name of their chief creator, AndrÉ Le NÔtre (1613-1700)-have become synonymous with the French style of "formal" garden. This style in its turn would succumb to another "national" mode, the English school of naturalistic and picturesque landscapes. But as …
History of the Gardens of Versailles
Häftad, 2012
342 kr
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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 axis celebrates the Sun King, even as they offer an expression of the scientific spirit of the age in their geometrical layout and exploitation of the …
Gardens of Suzhou
Häftad, 2012
389 kr
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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 eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of …
Gardens in the Modern Landscape
A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition
Häftad, 2014
459 kr
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Between 1937 and 1938, garden designer Christopher Tunnard published a series of articles in the British Architectural Review that rejected the prevailing English landscape style. Inspired by the principles of Modernist art and Japanese aesthetics, Tunnard called for a "new technique" in garden …
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Häftad, 2015
474 kr
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Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners …
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Av Paula Deitz
Häftad, 2016
449 kr
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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 readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home …
Marvels of the World
An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
Häftad, 2021
629 kr
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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 antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of …
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
Häftad, 2022
378 kr
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Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes immerses the reader in the world of the …
Across the Open Field
Essays Drawn from English Landscapes
Av Laurie Olin
Inbunden, 1999
651 kr
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"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied …
Theory of Garden Art
Av C. C. L. Hirschfeld, Linda B. Parshall
Inbunden, 2001
1060 kr
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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 garden art," he was influential not just in Germany but also in France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Russia. Popular with both …
La Foce
A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany
Av Benedetta Origo, Morna Livingston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
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819 kr
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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 farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa …
Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art
Chapters of a New History
Av John Dixon Hunt, Michel Conan
Inbunden, 2002
1002 kr
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In the absence of any modern history of French garden art, this volume offers twelve chapters that review some of the most interesting and innovative moments of French garden history. This series of studies traces a progression from what is taken as the golden age of French garden art, in the late …
Essay on Gardens
A Chapter in the French Picturesque
Av Claude-Henri Watelet, Samuel Danon
Inbunden, 2003
611 kr
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Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning …
Cultivated Power
Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
Inbunden, 2005
885 kr
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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, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, …
Vizcaya
An American Villa and Its Makers
Av Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin
Inbunden, 2007
610 kr
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The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power.In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a celebrated architecture …
Nature As Model
Salomon De Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design
Av Luke Morgan
Inbunden, 2006
938 kr
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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 engineers, and a garden designer whose work was influenced by astrology and hermeticism. The first comprehensive book on this protean figure, Nature …
Medici Gardens
From Making to Design
Av Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Inbunden, 2008
885 kr
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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 products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book reverses the usual belief that a garden is the …
Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden
Inbunden, 2008
885 kr
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The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of …
Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles Under Louis XIV
Av Robert W. Berger, Thomas F. Hedin
Inbunden, 2008
826 kr
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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 dignitaries who conducted diplomatic and political business with France. These activities became particularly important after Versailles was proclaimed the …
