Lisbon city gardeners, from horticulture to Landscape Architecture (1840

Lisbon city gardeners, from horticulture to Landscape Architecture (1840–1960)

Castel-Branco, Cristina / Cunha, Ana Raquel / Soares, Ana Luísa

In a growing problematic urban environment, we believe in the high value of urban parks and gardens and the role of qualified professionals in charge of their up-keeping. The complexity that entails the training of landscape architects and the experience in garden maintenance triggered the research on the agents, the periods, and the results expressed through 120-years (1840–1960) of Lisbon’s gardens management. The research was carried out by different experiments and used the Jardim Botânico da Ajuda and the Tapada da Ajuda as case studies, where the authors have collected experience on garden management and restauration during the last decades. The method started by reviewing the bibliography on the subject: Lisbon gardens, gardeners, maintenance structures, and decision-makers. The procedure of this study involved collecting data from different works: compiling information about people involved in garden-making, studying, and maintaining since 1840s, and who stood out for their practice and excellence through different periods of the 19th and 20th centuries. A holistic approach yielded three major requirements for the success of gardens—experience/instruction, dissemination, and transmission—which were the attributes of the 22 “gardenists” identified in this study. The value of their legacies for Lisbon gardens is the key focus of this work and led us to identify the profession of botanists/horticulturists, head gardeners, agronomists, foresters, painters, and landscape architects as contributors for the dynamic periods of the gardens movement. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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