An Introduction to the Study of Landscape DesignMacmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas |
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... sufficient whole to a degree that can be matched in few other styles . When Le Nôtre undertook the design of Versailles , after his successes at Vaux and Chantilly , the social conditions of France were in one respect similar to those ...
... sufficient whole to a degree that can be matched in few other styles . When Le Nôtre undertook the design of Versailles , after his successes at Vaux and Chantilly , the social conditions of France were in one respect similar to those ...
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... where there were never great enough crowds to give them sufficient reason for being . The Grand style was taken over also into the field of city planning , and the wide , straight , tree - planted avenues 44 DESIGN LANDSCAPE.
... where there were never great enough crowds to give them sufficient reason for being . The Grand style was taken over also into the field of city planning , and the wide , straight , tree - planted avenues 44 DESIGN LANDSCAPE.
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... sufficient inspiration of its own , soon palled even upon those who had first greeted it with enthusiasm . Novelty was secured by the introduction of Chinese pagodas and other oriental details to which the accounts of visitors to the ...
... sufficient inspiration of its own , soon palled even upon those who had first greeted it with enthusiasm . Novelty was secured by the introduction of Chinese pagodas and other oriental details to which the accounts of visitors to the ...
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... sufficiently similar so that we may say that they have the same landscape char- acter . This similarity of the character of one unified landscape to that of another exists , as we have said , in all degrees , and , just as with his ...
... sufficiently similar so that we may say that they have the same landscape char- acter . This similarity of the character of one unified landscape to that of another exists , as we have said , in all degrees , and , just as with his ...
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... sufficient feed for his animals ; but beside that use , such a meadow is in itself extremely beautiful , with a fairly definite characteristic beauty . † ( See Plate 8. ) It may lie so close to the peaks as to occupy the old glacier ...
... sufficient feed for his animals ; but beside that use , such a meadow is in itself extremely beautiful , with a fairly definite characteristic beauty . † ( See Plate 8. ) It may lie so close to the peaks as to occupy the old glacier ...
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Página 366 - Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening; including, Some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen for whose use they were originally written. The whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts.
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...