An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design

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Macmillan, 1917 - 406 páginas

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Página 1 - ... 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 186 - Often the designer may judiciously somewhat accent all the effects of his shore treatment because the observer is kept at a distance by the foreground water-surface, but if there is boating on the water the conditions may well be reversed, and the planting may then be arranged to be inspected close at hand. In its relation to architectural structures,* planting bears its part in landscape composition in these ways : it enframes, limiting the composition of which the structure is the dominant object...
Página 2 - 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 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 of rock and wood and water, which does not form the professional equipment of any...
Página 18 - 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...
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