An Introduction to the Study of Landscape DesignMacmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas |
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... shrubs , 171 — Tree and shrub groups , 173 - Composition of groups , 174 - Shrub beds , 175- Herbaceous beds and borders , 176 - Flower beds as parts of a garden inclosed , 177 - Arrangement of plants in relation to form of bed and form ...
... shrubs , 171 — Tree and shrub groups , 173 - Composition of groups , 174 - Shrub beds , 175- Herbaceous beds and borders , 176 - Flower beds as parts of a garden inclosed , 177 - Arrangement of plants in relation to form of bed and form ...
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... shrubs have been pruned into shapes not natural but supposed to represent more typically the character of the particular plants . There is a conventional relation of plants to water or stones or lanterns . Certain arrangements of stones ...
... shrubs have been pruned into shapes not natural but supposed to represent more typically the character of the particular plants . There is a conventional relation of plants to water or stones or lanterns . Certain arrangements of stones ...
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... shrub - grown wall , and elm - dotted river bottom , which are partly the results of man's activity in the less intensively- used farm land . This mode of treatment of the landscape on large areas has not only the esthetic advantage ...
... shrub - grown wall , and elm - dotted river bottom , which are partly the results of man's activity in the less intensively- used farm land . This mode of treatment of the landscape on large areas has not only the esthetic advantage ...
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... shrub beds and meanderings of paths very similar to unfortunate examples of the landscape style in Europe . When designed and maintained by persons of taste , however , this style , even in a very small area , can be treated in a way ...
... shrub beds and meanderings of paths very similar to unfortunate examples of the landscape style in Europe . When designed and maintained by persons of taste , however , this style , even in a very small area , can be treated in a way ...
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... shrubs , dwarfed and insignificant in relation to the sequoias , but forcing the party to wind about among them with the pack animals , seeking a level open place for a camp . Perhaps it is late afternoon when you reach the little bench ...
... shrubs , dwarfed and insignificant in relation to the sequoias , but forcing the party to wind about among them with the pack animals , seeking a level open place for a camp . Perhaps it is late afternoon when you reach the little bench ...
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An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design Theodora Kimball Hubbard,Henry Vincent Hubbard Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página i - ... 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.
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Página ii - The province of landscape architecture is to guide man's modification of the landscape so that he may get the greatest possible esthetic satisfaction of one or both of these two quite different kinds. The resulting beauty might be, at one end of the scale, that of the formal surroundings of a palace — architecture in natural materials to show man's magnificence — or, at the other extreme, that of a woodland solitude — apparently an age-long natural growth — a place of rest from all the works...
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Página 40 - The unending vision of sky and grass; the dim, distant, and ever-shifting horizon; the ridges that seem to be rolled upon one another in motionless torpor ; the effect of sunrise and sunset — of night narrowing the vision to nothing, and morning only expanding it to a shapeless blank ; the sigh and sough of a breeze that seems an echo in unison with the solitude of which it is the sole voice ; and, above all, the sense of lonely unending distance, which comes to the traveller when day after day...
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Página 5 - ... (The true critic must combine all three types in himself, and hold the balance by his sense of their reciprocal relations.) He cannot abnegate the right to judge ; he cannot divest himself of subjective tastes which colour his judgment; "but it is his supreme duty to train his faculty of judgment and to temper his subjectivity by the study of things in their historical connections. ) Heraclitus has a weighty saying, which those who aim at sound criticism should bear in mind.* "It behoves us...