Puckler's park in Muskau served as a textbook example of park design for American students through much of the twentieth century" (Gert Groning). Andeutungen ...
Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism's neglect of history, these ...
Et si le paysage nétait pas seulement un genre pictural, mais aussi une construction culturelle et sociale Des décors peints aux jardins, des parcs ...
FictionLes livres de Louis-Paul Guigues ont la grâce de certains récits mystiques et l'envoûtement des contes. Labyrinthes est son premier roman, publié chez Gallimard ...
A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinettes domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century archival illustrations. Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinettes passion; ...
Leberecht Migge (1881-1935) was one of the most innovative landscape architects of the early twentieth century. With work ranging from large urban parks to ...
Contrived, colourful, and cultured, the garden of the Tudor period was a paradise on earth, given over to pleasurable pastimes. Artificiality was the fashion ...
L'immagine del labirinto appare intrisa di sacralità e di mistero fin dalla più remota antichità. Il labirinto presenta una doppia valenza in quanto permette ...
This book presents a chronological review of garden design which both simplifies the big picture and supplies a rationale, with examples, of the merits ...
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long ...
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid ...
Passion Plants and Patronage takes readers on a luscious voyage through three centuries of Bute family commissioned gardens. Art, architecture and landscape have come ...