Regions And Designed Landscapes In Georgian England

Author : Sarah Spooner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317527404

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Regions and Designed Landscapes in Georgian England by Sarah Spooner Pdf

Garden design evolved hugely during the Georgian period – as symbols of wealth and stature, the landed aristocracy had been using gardens for decades. Yet during the eighteenth century, society began to homogenise, and the urban elite also started demanding landscapes that would reflect their positions. The gardens of the aristocracy and the gentry were different in appearance, use and meaning, despite broad similarities in form. Underlying this was the importance of place, of the landscape itself and its raw material. Contemporaries often referred to the need to consult the ‘genius of the place’ when creating a new designed landscape, as the place where the garden was located was critical in determining its appearance. Genius loci - soil type, topography, water supply - all influenced landscape design in this period. The approach taken in this book blends landscape and garden history to make new insights into landscape and design in the eighteenth century. Spooner’s own research presents little-known sites alongside those which are more well known, and explores the complexity of the story of landscape design in the Georgian period which is usually oversimplified and reduced to the story of a few ‘great men’.

Author : Sarah Spooner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317527411

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Regions and Designed Landscapes in Georgian England by Sarah Spooner Pdf

Garden design evolved hugely during the Georgian period – as symbols of wealth and stature, the landed aristocracy had been using gardens for decades. Yet during the eighteenth century, society began to homogenise, and the urban elite also started demanding landscapes that would reflect their positions. The gardens of the aristocracy and the gentry were different in appearance, use and meaning, despite broad similarities in form. Underlying this was the importance of place, of the landscape itself and its raw material. Contemporaries often referred to the need to consult the ‘genius of the place’ when creating a new designed landscape, as the place where the garden was located was critical in determining its appearance. Genius loci - soil type, topography, water supply - all influenced landscape design in this period. The approach taken in this book blends landscape and garden history to make new insights into landscape and design in the eighteenth century. Spooner’s own research presents little-known sites alongside those which are more well known, and explores the complexity of the story of landscape design in the Georgian period which is usually oversimplified and reduced to the story of a few ‘great men’.

Author : Clare Hickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300236101

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The Doctor's Garden by Clare Hickman Pdf

A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

Author : Kapila D. Silva,Amita Sinha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317365938

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Cultural Landscapes of South Asia by Kapila D. Silva,Amita Sinha Pdf

The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize, enact and reinvent cultural memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks.

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317534075

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Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East by Mohammad Gharipour Pdf

The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities to a new era and also in transforming to a newly shaped social culture in which the public has a voice. This book considers what ties these projects to their historical context, and what regional and local elements and concepts have been used in their design.

Author : Jacky Bowring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317366942

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Melancholy and the Landscape by Jacky Bowring Pdf

Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness. The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.

Author : Nicole Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317550563

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Landscape and Branding by Nicole Porter Pdf

Landscape and branding explores the way landscape is conceptualised, conceived, represented and designed by professionals in a brand-driven age. Landscape - incorporating tangible physical space as well as intangible concepts, narratives, images, and experiences of place - is constructed by a number of creative industries. This book tests the hypothesis that place branding, a powerful marketing and management practice, increasingly blurs the distinction between the promotion of landscape and its production in design terms. Place branding involves the strategic and systematic composition of single-minded, experiential and market-friendly place identities which are consistently communicated across various media, including physical space. How does this implicate or transform notions of place, nature, landscape experience, and the qualitative value of landscape itself? How does this affect the role of landscape architecture? To answer these questions, place branding theory and practice is critically examined alongside an in depth case study of one specific landscape - the Blue Mountains (Australia). Projects undertaken between 1995 and 2015, including a branding strategy for the region, media campaigns, television, cinema, and several landscape architectural works in the public and private domain are comparatively analysed, focusing on the discourse, conventions and values informing their production, and the landscape narratives they convey.

Author : Thomas Zeller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421444833

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Consuming Landscapes by Thomas Zeller Pdf

What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure. For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical forces, and humans have shaped them as they simultaneously sought to be transformed by them. In Consuming Landscapes, Thomas Zeller explores how what we see while driving reflects how we view our societies and ourselves, the role that consumerism plays in our infrastructure, and ideas about reshaping the environment in the twentieth century. Zeller breaks new ground by comparing the driving experience and the history of landscaped roads in the United States and Germany, two major automotive countries. He focuses specifically on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States and the German Alpine Road as case studies. When the automobile was still young, an early twentieth-century group of designers—landscape architects, civil engineers, and planners—sought to build scenic infrastructures, or roads that would immerse drivers in the landscapes that they were traversing. As more Americans and Europeans owned cars and drove them, however, they became less interested in enchanted views; safety became more important than beauty. Clashes between designers and drivers resulted in different visions of landscapes made for automobiles. As strange as it may seem to twenty-first-century readers, many professionals in the early twentieth century envisioned cars and roads, if properly managed, as saviors of the environment. Consuming Landscapes illustrates how the meaning of infrastructures changed as a result of use and consumption. Such changes indicate a deep ambivalence toward the automobile and roads, prompting the question: can cars and roads bring us closer to nature while deeply altering it at the same time?

Author : Kim Wilkie Environmental Design
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCBK:C110944485

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Thames Landscape Strategy by Kim Wilkie Environmental Design Pdf

Author : Land Use Consultants (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UVA:X001616618

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An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland: Tayside, Central and Fife by Land Use Consultants (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Susan Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 0300196180

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William Kent by Susan Weber Pdf

Published for Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Country homes
ISBN : UVA:X001616631

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An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland: Dumfries and Galloway and Strathclyde by Anonim Pdf

Author : Land Use Consultants (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UVA:X001616629

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An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland: Summary report by Land Use Consultants (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X030052042

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The Local Historian by Anonim Pdf

Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : BAR British Series
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015041907273

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The Archaeology of the Landscape Park by Tom Williamson Pdf

This readable and substantial volume is comprised of two parts; detailed chapters covering the history, context and interpretation of the landscape park, and a gazetteer of all the parks examined. Each entry gives the name, refernce and principal soil types for the sites, with a summary of the history of their development.