An Introduction to the Study of Landscape DesignMacmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas |
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... enframed , and made a part of the picture of the garden . The garden itself is thoroughly screened , when its size makes this possible , from the intrusion of anything out of scale or inharmonious in association with the purpose of the ...
... enframed , and made a part of the picture of the garden . The garden itself is thoroughly screened , when its size makes this possible , from the intrusion of anything out of scale or inharmonious in association with the purpose of the ...
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... enframed by the adjacent woodland . The esthetic possibilities of these compositions of forest edge and free - standing trees and turfed ground surface appealed to the English people , and in the parks of the great English estates ( see ...
... enframed by the adjacent woodland . The esthetic possibilities of these compositions of forest edge and free - standing trees and turfed ground surface appealed to the English people , and in the parks of the great English estates ( see ...
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... enframed by other objects , purely according to their relative positions in relation to the observer . It is a fact however that diminution of size on account of distance will not subordinate an object in nature to the extent that the ...
... enframed by other objects , purely according to their relative positions in relation to the observer . It is a fact however that diminution of size on account of distance will not subordinate an object in nature to the extent that the ...
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... enframed pictorially by the balanced subordinate masses which inclose the vista , and these masses screen all other objects out from the com- position . The bounding lines of these enframing masses converge upon the focal point , and a ...
... enframed pictorially by the balanced subordinate masses which inclose the vista , and these masses screen all other objects out from the com- position . The bounding lines of these enframing masses converge upon the focal point , and a ...
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... enframed . ( See Plate 14. ) Overhanging trees may enframe a composition on the top as well ( see Drawing II , opp . p . 30 ) , and the shadows of such trees , or a long shadow from an object at the side , or perhaps a low mass of ...
... enframed . ( See Plate 14. ) Overhanging trees may enframe a composition on the top as well ( see Drawing II , opp . p . 30 ) , and the shadows of such trees , or a long shadow from an object at the side , or perhaps a low mass of ...
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Página 39 - I confess that the great object of my ambition is not merely to produce a book of pictures, but to furnish some hints for establishing the fact that true taste in landscape gardening, as well as in all the other polite arts, is not an accidental effect, operating on the outward senses, but an appeal to the understanding, which is able to compare, to separate, and to combine, the various sources of pleasure derived from external objects, and to trace them to some pre-existing causes in the structure...
Página 3 - ... the comfort, convenience, and health of urban populations, which have scanty access to rural scenery, and urgently need to have their hurrying, workaday lives refreshed and calmed by the beautiful and reposeful sights and sounds which nature, aided by the landscape art, can abundantly provide.
Página 4 - ... the works of man. In this new province, there must be a new type of designer. In producing the formal setting of a palace, the landscape architect's equipment may indeed differ from that of the architect only in his knowledge of plants and what effects can be secured with them ; in reproducing or in intelligently preserving a natural woodland, however, the landscape architect must have a knowledge of nature's processes, a familiarity with nature's materials, a sensitiveness to the natural beauty...
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Página 298 - country park," designed to give, as far as is consistent with fairly intensive use, all the sense of freedom that the unspoiled country gives, and being the nearest thing to unspoiled country that most of the city dwellers can commonly take time to enjoy.
Página 20 - I have looked studiously but vainly among them for a single face completely unsympathetic with the prevailing expression of good nature and light-heartedness. Is it doubtful that it does men good to come together in this way in pure air and under the light of heaven...
Página 52 - First, The spot from whence the view is taken, is in a fixed state to the painter ; but the gardener surveys his scenery while in motion ; and from different windows in the same front he sees objects in different situations...
Página 95 - As soon as the house is visible from the approach, there should be no temptation to quit it, (which will ever be the case if the road be at all circuitous,) unless sufficient obstacles, such as water or...