An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design

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Macmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas

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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...
Página 377 - English houses and gardens in the 17th and 18th centuries: a series of bird's-eye views reproduced from contemporary engravings by Kip, Badeslade, Harris and others. With descriptive notes by Mervyn Macartney.
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...

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