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A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A world of gardens
Sacred landscapes from Delphi to Yosemite -- Hunting parks to amusement parks -- Ancient Roman gardens and their types -- Islamic and Mughal gardens -- Western medieval gardens : from cloister to suburban backyard -- The Renaissance recovery of antique garden forms and usages -- The Paragone of art and nature in the Renaissance and later -- The botanical garden, the arboretum and the cabinet of curiosities -- Garden as theatre -- The garden of "betweenity" : between André Le Nôtre and William Kent -- Leaping the ha-ha; or, How the larger landscape invaded the garden -- The role of the "natural" garden from "Capability" Brown to Dan Kiley -- The Chinese garden and the collaboration of the arts -- Follies, fabriques and picturesque play -- The invention of the public park -- National parks and international exhibition gardens -- Japanese gardens and their legacy to the West -- Arts and crafts gardens: the artist back in the garden -- The prose and poetry of modern landscape architecture -- The once and future garden
A world of gardens
Sacred landscapes from Delphi to Yosemite -- Hunting parks to amusement parks -- Ancient Roman gardens and their types -- Islamic and Mughal gardens -- Western medieval gardens : from cloister to suburban backyard -- The Renaissance recovery of antique garden forms and usages -- The Paragone of art and nature in the Renaissance and later -- The botanical garden, the arboretum and the cabinet of curiosities -- Garden as theatre -- The garden of "betweenity" : between André Le Nôtre and William Kent -- Leaping the ha-ha; or, How the larger landscape invaded the garden -- The role of the "natural" garden from "Capability" Brown to Dan Kiley -- The Chinese garden and the collaboration of the arts -- Follies, fabriques and picturesque play -- The invention of the public park -- National parks and international exhibition gardens -- Japanese gardens and their legacy to the West -- Arts and crafts gardens: the artist back in the garden -- The prose and poetry of modern landscape architecture -- The once and future garden
A world of gardens
Hunt, John Dixon (author)
2012
368 S.
26 cm
zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Literaturangaben in Endnoten (S. 347 - 359)
Mit Reg.
Digital preservation by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
Digital preservation by Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Book
English
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