Title & Author:

Water / [presented by] Peter Shepheard.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Peter Shepheard -- The Thames At Greenwich, London -- The Mekong River, Bangkok, Thailand -- Pool -- Left: Waterfall At Lauderbrunnen. Right: Fountain In Lac Leman, Geneva, Switzerland -- Top: Hilburn Island, Cheshire, UK. Bottom: Beaulieu River, Mud Flats, Hampshire, UK -- Views Of Pool On A Welsh Stream -- Granite Tank In A Bangkok Temple -- Pool At Villa Garzzoni, Colloni, Italy -- Ablution Tank In Shah's Mosque, Isfahan, Iran -- Top: Shepheard Drawing Of Moat In Cattle House, London Zoo. Bottom: The Building & Moat Completed -- Medici Fountain, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France -- Artificial Pond At Old Imperial Palace. Kyoto, Japan -- Artificial Lake, York University. UK -- Reflections In An Amsterdam Canal -- Lake At Kenwood House, London -- Pond In Rothko Memorial Garden, Houston, Texas, USA -- Fountain In Tuileries Gardens, Paris -- Pocahontas Fountain At Logan Circle, Philadelphia, USA -- Fountain By Walter Russow At German Pavilion, Expo 38. Brussels, Belgium -- Weir On River Teifi, Wales -- Fountains & Pool In Generalise Gardens, Granada, Spain -- Fountain In Patio De Los Arrayanes In The Alhambra, Granada, Spain -- Patio De Los Arrayanes (The Myrtles) In The Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

Summary:

The late Sir Peter Shepheard, knighted in the UK shortly before this talk, practiced architecture in London with his partner Gaby Epstein. He was also Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, where he was Dean from 1971 to 1979. From 1969 to 1971 he was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, following which he became President of the Institute of Landscape Architects. But his first love was always ecology and nature, and his drawings of birds and other living creatures are famous. In his talk, he discusses water as a designer's material: "of all the materials used by a landscape architect" he says, "water is one of the most misunderstood". Yet it is so important "as a symbol of everything that is rich, abundant, sexual, delightful, and so on. Therefore we must treat it so that it fulfils this symbolic function". The appearance and behaviour of water; the design of margins and fountains; reflections - these are all aspects on which he elaborates, reminding us that the symbolism of water in temperate climates may be entirely different from what it is in Italy or Spain.

Subject:

Water and architecture.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Eau et architecture.
Architecture Esthétique.

Added entries:

Shepheard, Peter F., Sir, 1913- narrator.