Across the open field : essays drawn from English landscapes /

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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 di...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Olin, Laurie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Series:Penn studies in landscape architecture.
Subjects:
Olin, Laurie > Travel > England.
Olin, Laurie.
Landscape architecture > England > History.
Gardens, English > History.
Landscapes > England.
Gardens > England > History.
Architecture du paysage > Angleterre > Histoire.
Jardins anglais > Histoire.
Paysages > Angleterre.
Jardins > Angleterre > Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
Gardens.
Gardens, English.
Landscape architecture.
Landscapes.
Travel.
England > Description and travel.
Angleterre > Descriptions et voyages.
England.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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