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Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

Description: The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the...

The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day

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Author

Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

PublisherMIT Press

Copyright© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17741

Contents

Introduction: The Architecture of the Garden and Architecture in the Garden
Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot

PART ONE
The Humanist Garden: From Allegory to Mannerism

The Humanist Garden
Terry Comito

Nature and Artifice in the Sixteenth-Century Italian Garden
Lionello Puppi

Curiosities and Marvels of the Sixteenth-Century Garden
Luigi Zangheri

The Garden of Wisdom of Bernard Palissy
Anne-Marie Lecoq

Botanical Gardens of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi

Labyrinths in the Gardens of the Renaissance
Paolo Carpeggiani

The Giardino Segreto of the Renaissance
Gianni Venturi

The Villa Lante at Bagnaia
Bruno Adorni

The Gardens of Buontalenti
Luigi Zangheri

Illustrations of Gardens in the Sixteenth Century: ‘The Most Excellent Buildings in France’
Françoise Boudon

Johan Vredeman de Vries and the Hortorum Formae
Ulbe Martin Mehrtens

A Model Humanist Garden: Villa Brenzone at Punta San Vigilio
Margherita Azzi Visentini

PART TWO
The Straight Line and the Arabesque: From the Baroque Garden to the Classical Park

Garden History and Cartography
Françoise Boudon

Technology in the Park: Engineers and Gardeners in Seventeenth-Century France
Hélène Vérin

The Italian Baroque and Rococo Garden
Anna Maria Matteucci

The Hortus Palatinus of Salomon de Caus
Reinhard Zimmermann

The Garden Designs of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder
Dorothee Nehring

Garden Design in The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
Carla S. Oldenburger-Ebbers

Villas, Gardens and Fountains of Rome: The Etchings of Giovanni Battista Falda
Maurizio Gargano

The Architectural Adornment of Cardinal Richelieu’s Garden at Rueil
Kenneth Woodbridge

The Menagerie at Versailles
Gérard Mabille

Gardens and Plant Collections in France and Italy in the Seventeenth Century
Antoine Schnapper

The Formal Garden at Het Loo
Jan van Asbeck

The Garden of Villa Garzoni at Collodi
Alessandra Ponte

‘Hell and Paradise Are Here’: The Garden of Villa Barbarigo at Valsanzibio, Padua
Lionello Puppi

The Garden of the Prince-Bishop at Veitshöchheim
Helmut Reinhardt

The Grosser Garten at Herrenhausen near Hanover
Dieter Hennebo

Schönbrunn: A Theatre of Fragments
Paolo Morachiello

La Granja: Castilian Baroque and European Classicism
Carmen Añón Feliú

PART THREE
Picturesque, Arcadian and Sublime: The Age of Enlightenment

‘Ut Pictura Poesis’: The Garden and the Picturesque in England (1710–1750)
John Dixon Hunt

Scenography and Perspective in Eighteenth-Century French Gardens
Marianne Roland Michel

Received Ideas on Pastoral
Simon Pugh

Paradox in the Garden: A Brief Account of Fabriques
Monique Mosser

Nature and the Idea of Gardening in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Carmen Añón Feliú

German Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: Classicism, Rococo and Neo-Classicism
Helmut Reinhardt

Urban Walks in France in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Daniel Rabreau

The Park of Wilhelmshöhe: From the Baroque Delineatio Montis to the Heroic Landscape
Hans-Christoph Dittscheid

The Italian Origins of Rousham
Elisabetta Cereghini

The Sublime as Paradigm: Hafod and Hawkstone
Malcolm Andrews

Gardens of the Palazzo Reale at Caserta
Cesare De Seta

The Tiled Gardens of Southern Portugal
Anne de Stoop

The Imperial Gardens of Russia
Peter Hayden

The ‘Ideas’ of René de Girardin at Ermenonville
Antoinette Le Norman Romain

The Gardens of Hubert Robert
Jean de Cayeux

The Character of the Tree: From Alexander Cozens to Richard Payne Knight
Alessandra Ponte

Masonic Gardens in Sicily
Eliana Mauro and Ettore Sessa

PART FOUR
The Eclectic Garden, and the Town and City Park

The Eclectic Garden and the Imitation of Nature
Georges Teyssot

Public Parks in Great Britain and the United States: From a ‘Spirit of the Place’ to a ‘Spirit of Civilization’
Alessandra Ponte

Haussmann’s Paris: A Green Metropolis?
Thomas von Joest

The Beaux-Arts Garden
Ignasi de Solà Morales

The Green Revolution: Leberecht Migge and the Reform of the Garden in Modernist Germany
Marco De Michelis

The Park at Klein-Glienicke, Berlin
Klaus von Krosigk

The English Cottage Garden
Gillian Darley

Glasshouses and Winter Gardens
Renzo Dubbini

A.J. Downing (1815–1852): Beyond the Treatise on Landscape Gardening
Judith K. Major

The Viktoriapark in Berlin
Vroni Heinrich

The Park Güell, Barcelona (1900–1914)
Ignasi de Solà Morales

The Parc Léopold: The Home of Scientific Imagination
Annick Brauman

Henri and Achille Duchêne and the Reinvention of Le Nôtre
Monique Mosser

Allotments and Schrebergärten in Germany
Birgit Wahmann

The Jugendstil Garden in Germany and Austria
Birgit Wahmann

Gardens of the Côte d’Azur
Michel Racine

Art Deco Gardens in France
Catherine Royer

The Heimatschutz Movement and the Monumentalization of the Landscape
Marco Pogačnik

The Reform Park in the United States (1900–1930)
Galen Cranz

PART FIVE
Aspects of the Contemporary Garden: From the Leisure Park to Artistic Experimentation

Gardens and Photography
Tony Mott

Leisure Parks in Europe: Entertainment and Escapism
Isabelle Auricoste

The Garden and the Visual Arts in the Contemporary Period: Arcadians, Post-classicists and Land Artists
Stephen Bann

The Bos Park, Amsterdam, and Urban Development in Holland
Sergio Polano

Recreation Facilities in the United States (1930–1940)
Catherine Howett

Greenbelt, Maryland
Christian Zapatka

The Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe at Sutton Place, Surrey
George Plumptre

The Pictorial Technique of ‘Ecological Painting’: The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx
Fernando Aliata

The Gardens of Ian Hamilton Finlay
Stephen Bann

The Impossible Quest for the Past: Thoughts on the Restoration of Gardens
Monique Mosser

ICOMOS: Florence Charter

Index of People and Places

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Description: The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the...

BOOKThe Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day

Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17739

The Architecture of Western Gardens presents an international tour of garden design from the Renaissance to the present. As object and as literature, it is an unprecedented resource. The more than seventy essays by scholars from Europe and America—all commissioned for this book—and over 650 illustrations raise the standard of garden literature to a new level. The result is an invaluable compendium that will serve as a fundamental starting point for exploring the many expressions of the place where nature and culture, project and diversion, work and pleasure meet.

Organized chronologically, the essays and illustrations make up a mosaic of the garden in the Western world. The humanist garden in Renaissance Italy, the concepts of the “Sublime” and the “Picturesque,” mazes, grottoes, and other curiosities, city parks, American land art, and even Disneyland are among the topics treated. Discussions of characteristic aspects of history and theory are followed by analyses of individual gardens as paradigms of their type: the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg, the Parc Monceau in Paris, the Park Guell in Barcelona, Stowe in England, and many more.

The illustrations are a model of how iconography can function as text. They include ground plans meticulously redrawn from original archival material to provide precise information on the scale and nature of many of the projects, as well as a wealth of drawings, reconstructions, paintings, and photographs.

Author

Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

PublisherMIT Press

Print publication date August 1991 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780262132640

EISBN 9780300238761

Copyright© 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Thames and Hudson Ltd, London

Illustrations 630

Print Status out of print

Publisher (out of print)

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