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Gardens in the modern landscape : a facsimile of the revised 1948 edition /
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 g...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Ã2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Penn studies in landscape architecture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; GARDENS IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword to the facsimile edition; Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1948 edition); FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LANDSCAPE INTO GARDEN; I. Reason and Romanticism; The Grotto. A manifestation of the taste for ""Awful Beauty"" in the eighteenth-century garden; II. The Verdant Age; A Garden Landscape, 1740; III. Pictures versus Prospects; A Garden Landscape, 1840; THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRADITION; I. Victorian Ideals; II. Colour and the Cottage Garden; III. Science and Specialization; TOWARDS A NEW TECHNIQUE.
- I. Functional Aspects of Garden PlanningII. Asymmetrical Garden Planning; III. Art and Ornament; Modern Interpretations of Traditional Forms; IV. The Planter's Eye; Architects' Plants; GARDEN INTO LANDSCAPE; I. Gardens in the Modern Landscape; The Garden in the Landscape. A summary of characteristic development over 200 years; II. Community Gardens; III. A Solution for Today; The Minimum Garden; A Garden Landscape in Transition; IV. The Wider Planning; MODERN AMERICAN GARDENS; THE MODERN GARDEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.