An Introduction to the Study of Landscape DesignMacmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas |
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... parterres , 180 - Ground cover , 182 - Turf , 182 — Planting in relation to topography , 183 - Water- side planting , 185- Planting in relation to architectural structures , 186 - Planting as enframement , 186- Planting as transition ...
... parterres , 180 - Ground cover , 182 - Turf , 182 — Planting in relation to topography , 183 - Water- side planting , 185- Planting in relation to architectural structures , 186 - Planting as enframement , 186- Planting as transition ...
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... parterre . Perfection , therefore , often requires in the de- signer a kind of bigotry . It demands absolute sacrifice of all charac- teristics , beauties as well as faults , which are not the characteristics of the particular ideal ...
... parterre . Perfection , therefore , often requires in the de- signer a kind of bigotry . It demands absolute sacrifice of all charac- teristics , beauties as well as faults , which are not the characteristics of the particular ideal ...
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... parterres before the days of Le Nôtre , there had been great gardens consisting of different treatments of ... parterre serves as a setting for the building , a place for the display in open sun- light of the various decorative ...
... parterres before the days of Le Nôtre , there had been great gardens consisting of different treatments of ... parterre serves as a setting for the building , a place for the display in open sun- light of the various decorative ...
Página 42
... parterres and overarching the allées . Of smaller trees , like the bay and the orange in tubs , as in many Italian ... parterre and interminable stretch of vista . All over Europe , too , the Grand style found ready imitators ; and in ...
... parterres and overarching the allées . Of smaller trees , like the bay and the orange in tubs , as in many Italian ... parterre and interminable stretch of vista . All over Europe , too , the Grand style found ready imitators ; and in ...
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... parterre bed . The fact that the effective unity perceived in any scene is merely the unity on which attention is at the moment concentrated is shown by the experience that one may perceive several distinct and 90 DESIGN LANDSCAPE.
... parterre bed . The fact that the effective unity perceived in any scene is merely the unity on which attention is at the moment concentrated is shown by the experience that one may perceive several distinct and 90 DESIGN LANDSCAPE.
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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...