Of Gardens. Paula Deitz

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СКАЧАТЬ Palace: Final Portrait of the Palm House

       Gardens Fit for a Queen

       Hartford's 1896 Rose Garden, Whose Ancestors Were Born in France

       2,700 Roses Re-create Old Garden: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden

       A Victorian Gem Restored: The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

       A Centennial Bouquet: The Botanic Garden of Smith College, 1895-1995

       The Rose Garden at the White House

       A New Memorial Squanders a Sparkling Opportunity

       The Green Gardens of Jerusalem: Parks, Squares, and Promenades

       Garden Letter from Greece: The Agora

       The Moonlight Garden at the Taj Mahal

       A Rare Garden in Barbados: Andromeda Gardens

       Along a Nature and Garden Trail in Bermuda

       A Walk in the Park Around Jinji Lake

       Chapter Three. American

       The Poetics of the American Garden

       1680 Formal Garden Discovered in the South

       A Historic Colonial Plantation Recovered from the Rough

       Fairsted: At Home with Frederick Law Olmsted

       At Old Westbury, Gracious Gardens

       Stately Views: A 1920s Garden Inspired by the Villa d'Este

       Mediterranean Light: A Classic Italian Garden in California

       Wethersfield: In the Style of an Italian Villa Garden

       The American Academy in Rome

       The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: A Blend of Far Eastern and English Inspiration

       Far East, Down East: A Classic Asian Landscape

       A Cultivated Coast: The Garden at Somes Meadow

       On Maine's Coast, Vistas Are Cast in Stone

       Autumn in New England

       Chapter Four. British

       The Painted Garden: William Kent's Rousham

       Painshill Park: Charles Hamilton's Folly Garden

       The Waterways of Castle Howard

       Reclaiming Noble Gardens of the Towy Valley

       Classic Garden Tames a Fierce Welsh Crag: Powis Castle

       Buckhurst Park: From Humphry Repton to Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll

       Lanning Roper's English Gardens with a U.S. Flavor

       Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks's Garden of Scottish Worthies

       Sitting in the Garden: A History

       Chapter Five. French

       The Gardens of Versailles

       An Echo of a Memory: Recultivating the Tuileries

       The Formal Farm: Pascal Cribier's Vision of Rural Geometry

       The Désert de Retz: Cultural History Through Architecture

       Chapter Six. Japanese

       Autumn in Japan

       Japanese Screens and the Gardens of Kyoto

       Balancing Act: A Contemporary Garden for Kyoto's Oldest House

       Tea and Empathy: The Japanese House, Shofuso, in Fairmount Park

       Rice Paddy in the Sky: Rooftop Garden at the Mori Center

       Plum Blossoms: The Third Friend of Winter

       Chapter Seven. Flower Shows

       Courson: French International Flower Sale

       At Chelsea Flower Show: Gardens in Romantic Ruins

       Free to Grow Bluebells in England: British Prisoners Win Gold Medal

       A Garden Festival in Lausanne

       Epilogue. A Winter Garden of Yellow

       Afterword

       John Dixon Hunt

       Acknowledgments

       Index

       Photography Credits

       …nothing to the true pleasure of a garden.

      —Francis Bacon, “Of Gardens,” 1625

      IN 1625, the British philosopher and empiricist Francis Bacon wrote in his seminal essay “Of Gardens” that without gardens “buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks,” and that even “when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection.” As I reread this passage recently, my mind harkened back to the experience that jolted me into understanding landscape architecture, not just as a stepsister to architecture, as Bacon partially implies, but as the means by which man redeems the natural environment through design. The occasion was a lecture by the landscape architect and ecologist Ian L. McHarg at Rockefeller University in New York City. He had just published his book СКАЧАТЬ