The course of landscape architecture : a history of our designs on the natural world, from prehistory to the present /
Girot, Christophe, 1957-
The course of landscape architecture : a history of our designs on the natural world, from prehistory to the present / Christophe Girot. - 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 31 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-347) and index.
Between the human and the non-human -- Imagine landscape -- Roots: on the origins of landscapes : Avebury, England ; Bagh-i Fin, Iran -- Hydraulic civilizations: the geometry of water in landscapes : Faiyum Oasis, Egypt -- From Temenos to Physis : sacred landscapes in Greece : Delphi, Greece -- Of villas and woods: Roman and Barbarian landscapes : Hadrian's Villa, Italy -- Rule of faith : Santa Maria de Poblet, Spain -- Gardens of perspective: architectural landscapes in the Renaissance : Villa Lante, Italy -- Measure of reason : Vaux-le-Vicomte, France -- Gravity: constant of nature : Rousham, England -- Combustion: escape into the exotic : Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, France -- Acceleration: landscapes of the 20th Century : Parc de la Villette, France -- Terrain vague : Prospect Cottage, England -- Topology: rediscovering meaning in the landscape : Sigirino Mound, Ticino, Switzerland -- Toward a cultural revolution of nature. Foreword : Introduction : Afterword :
9780500342978 0500342970
2014930117
GBB528564 bnb
Landscape architecture--History.
History.
SB472 / .G57 2016
The course of landscape architecture : a history of our designs on the natural world, from prehistory to the present / Christophe Girot. - 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 31 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-347) and index.
Between the human and the non-human -- Imagine landscape -- Roots: on the origins of landscapes : Avebury, England ; Bagh-i Fin, Iran -- Hydraulic civilizations: the geometry of water in landscapes : Faiyum Oasis, Egypt -- From Temenos to Physis : sacred landscapes in Greece : Delphi, Greece -- Of villas and woods: Roman and Barbarian landscapes : Hadrian's Villa, Italy -- Rule of faith : Santa Maria de Poblet, Spain -- Gardens of perspective: architectural landscapes in the Renaissance : Villa Lante, Italy -- Measure of reason : Vaux-le-Vicomte, France -- Gravity: constant of nature : Rousham, England -- Combustion: escape into the exotic : Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, France -- Acceleration: landscapes of the 20th Century : Parc de la Villette, France -- Terrain vague : Prospect Cottage, England -- Topology: rediscovering meaning in the landscape : Sigirino Mound, Ticino, Switzerland -- Toward a cultural revolution of nature. Foreword : Introduction : Afterword :
9780500342978 0500342970
2014930117
GBB528564 bnb
Landscape architecture--History.
History.
SB472 / .G57 2016