An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern architects ...
Thomas Whatley's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first contemporary study of what has come to be known as the English landscape garden, ...
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown is often thought of as an innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, 'naturalistic' style of landscape design. But he was ...
Fin dall'antichità vediamo emergere alcune figure di donne, per lo più appartenenti ad una ristretta cerchia e ad un elevata classe sociale, appassionate di ...
La formazione del "giardino" nel mondo italico preromano è un processo complesso, le cui origini risalgono sino alla protostoria ed alle trasformazioni dell'ambiente in ...
Two albums of drawings by Capability BrownÔÇÖs draughtsman, John Spyers, were recently discovered in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg and are here reproduced ...
Un guide qui conjugue la génèse des jardins d'Arnaud Maurières et Éric Ossart, leurs sources d'inspiration (souvent inattendues) et une visite commentée donnant au ...
This book provides an overview of the extent to which the 18th-century English Landscape Garden spread through Europe and Russia. While this type of ...
I giardini di Firenze, ultima opera inedita di Angiolo Pucci, aveva assunto fino a qualche tempo fa un carattere quasi leggendario. Le poche notizie ...
Garden design evolved hugely during the Georgian period - as symbols of wealth and stature, the landed aristocracy had been using gardens for decades. ...
A beautifully illustrated volume on the Tudor-style house, a keystone in American interiors and architecture. Since its birth in sixteenth-century England, the Tudor-style house ...
This is a set that brings together scholarly work on historical, conceptual, and technical aspects of the urban landscape. The role of landscape, as ...
In 1890, Frederick Law Olmsted, then nearly sixty-eight years old, had risen to the pinnacle of his career. Together with his partners, stepson John ...
Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million ...
