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408 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
London : Thames and Hudson, 1995.
The landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe.
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London : Thames and Hudson, 1995.
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Stephen Stimson Associates landscape architect is a design firm deeply rooted in planning, design and construction of landscape in all its forms: garden, street, park, campus, community, and region. The firm is renowned for exceeding design goals with regard to space and use of materials, and Stimson's work often challenges design assumptions by using common materials in(...)
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February 2002, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Stephen Stimson Associates / ten landscapes
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Stephen Stimson Associates landscape architect is a design firm deeply rooted in planning, design and construction of landscape in all its forms: garden, street, park, campus, community, and region. The firm is renowned for exceeding design goals with regard to space and use of materials, and Stimson's work often challenges design assumptions by using common materials in uncommon ways. Much of the firm's work--from residential to corporate to institutional--responds to the elements and natural foundations of the northeastern coastal United States.
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February 2002, Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Elegant and magnificent, conservatories reveal fascinating social, cultural, botanical, and engineering advances as they have evolved across history. First appearing in the eighteenth century as simple structures designed to protect fruit trees and other delicate plants from harsh European winters, conservatories became grand glass houses that spread across the European(...)
The conservatory: gardens under glass
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Elegant and magnificent, conservatories reveal fascinating social, cultural, botanical, and engineering advances as they have evolved across history. First appearing in the eighteenth century as simple structures designed to protect fruit trees and other delicate plants from harsh European winters, conservatories became grand glass houses that spread across the European continent, to the Americas, and ultimately around the world. Through archival and contemporary photographs, drawings of landmark structures, and accessible text, ''The Conservatory'' celebrates the patrons and designers who advanced the technology and architectural majesty of these light-filled structures. The importance of conservatories continues to grow with efforts to conserve phenomenal plants and their environments.
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402 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
[London] : Booth-Clibborn Editions, [2000]
Voyage / Nadim Karam & Atelier Hapsitus.
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[London] : Booth-Clibborn Editions, [2000]
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While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the(...)
Meaning in landscape architecture and gardens: Four essays, Four commentaries
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While we all live our lives in designed landscapes of various types, only on occasion do we consider what these landscapes mean to us and how they have acquired that significance. Can a landscape architect or garden designer really imbue new settings with meaning, or does meaning evolve over time, created by those who perceive and use these landscapes? What role does the selection and arrangement of plants and hard materials play in this process and just where does the passage of time enter into the equation? These questions collectively provide the core material for Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, a compendium of four landmark essays written over a period of twenty years by leading scholars in the field of landscape architecture. New commentaries by the authors accompany each of the essays and reflect on the thinking behind them as well as the evolution of the author’s thoughts since their original publication.
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The afterlife of gardens
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this(...)
The afterlife of gardens
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Most historical and critical discussions of gardens focus on their design. What happens after the completion of the design, however, is largely ignored, which neglects a much larger part of the site's interest and potential. For gardens, John Dixon Hunt contends, are experienced, often by a succession of visitors at different times and often from different cultures; this experience, though determined by the original design and its subsequent modifications, also augments the site's potentialities, and this "afterlife" of gardens comes to enhance the original moment of creation. One way of exploring the experience of designed landscapes is to adapt literary reception theory to the study of gardens. Hunt argues that such an approach via the reception or experience of gardens enlarges how we should understand their significance and meanings. It is generally assumed that the experience of gardens became a prime ingredient of late eighteenth-century landscapes -- picturesque literature especially highlighted how visitors responded to their surroundings, reading inscriptions and recognizing the significance of carefully placed architectural items or fabriqués. But there is considerable evidence for a much earlier interest in how experience came to constitute an essential aspect of a site beyond the intentions of the original designer or patron. Among other early examples, Hunt examines the book “Hypnerotomachia Polifili” (1499) to show how its protagonist is shown exploring and negotiating a series of strange and baffling landscapes. Through other inquiries -- particularly into the role of movement in such different situations as Versailles, and Chiswick or along modern highways – “The Afterlife of Gardens” provides a fresh approach to the study of designed landscapes that goes beyond their production and into how they exist and are understood by their users. In this ambitious new book the author shows how the complete history of a garden must extend beyond the moment of its design and the aims of the designer to record its subsequent reception. He raises questions about the preservation of historical sites, and provides lessons for the contemporary designer, who may perhaps be more attentive to the life of a work after its design and implementation. This book will interest all who have a professional interest in gardens, as well as the wide general audience for gardens and landscapes of past and present.
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January 1900, Philadelphia
Landscape Theory
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In 'Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950' Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context of economic, political, and environmental transformation.
Japanese landscapes and gardens, 1650-1950
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In 'Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950' Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context of economic, political, and environmental transformation.
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Catalogue of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Five centuries of women & gardens
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Catalogue of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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October 2000, London
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In this volume, photographer Roberto Schezen, together with Italian art historian Marcello Fagiolo, explores twelve villas and great gardens of the Lazio region around Rome, including Hadrian's Villa, Villa D'Este, Palazzo Farnese, Villa Lante, Villas Orsini, Fonte Papacqua, Castello Ruspoli, Palazzo Odescalchi, Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Grazioli, Giardino(...)
Roman gardens : villas of the countryside
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In this volume, photographer Roberto Schezen, together with Italian art historian Marcello Fagiolo, explores twelve villas and great gardens of the Lazio region around Rome, including Hadrian's Villa, Villa D'Este, Palazzo Farnese, Villa Lante, Villas Orsini, Fonte Papacqua, Castello Ruspoli, Palazzo Odescalchi, Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Grazioli, Giardino Caetani (Ninfa), and Giardino Portoghesi. "Roman Gardens: Villas of the Countryside" is the first in a two-volume set. "Roman Gardens: Villas of the City" will be published in 1999.
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September 1997, New York
Gardens
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Tree Gardens focuses on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures," masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study, from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest, explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its(...)
Tree gardens: architecture and the forest
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Tree Gardens focuses on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures," masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study, from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest, explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its expressive structure.
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