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Across the open field : essays drawn from English landscapes /
"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 di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Penn studies in landscape architecture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 As the Twig Is Bent; 2 On Buckland and Drawing: First Impressions and Later Observations; 3 Village and Farm: Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire; An Agricultural Landscape; Bronze and Iron Age Developments; Medieval Longbridge and the Emergence of Wessex; Norman Prosperity; Architecture in the Landscape: The Great Rebuilding; Climate, Ecology, and the Landscape; Longbridge at the Crossroads; 4 Et in Arcadia Ego: Landscape Gardens and Parks; Love at First Sight; Habits of Mind; Longleat; Italian Moods, Palladians, and the Landscape; Stourhead.
- Lancelot ""Capability"" BrownThe Landscape Movement Spreads; Pusey House; Buscot House; Wardour Castle, Buckland House, and Richard Woods; In Conclusion: Beauty Past Change; Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Index.