Design on the Land The Development of Landscape Architecture

Name: Design on the Land The Development of Landscape Architecture
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ISBN: 9780674198708

ISBN-10: 0674198700

ISBN-13: 9780674198708

Edition: 1971

Authors: Norman T. Newton

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With the role of the landscape architect increasing as it is in importance, this first comprehensive survey of the art and practice of landscape architecture fills a great need. Norman T. Newton has included over 400 illustrations in his book, which conveys a basic understanding of the aims and scope of landscape architecture and offers visual analyses of major historic works, each in the context of its own time. The first third of the study is concerned with landscape architecture in the Western world, mainly Europe, from ancient times to the mid-nineteenth century. But the major part of the work is devoted to the development of landscape architecture in the century that has passed…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 1971
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1971
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 740
Size: 7.32" wide x 10.20" long x 1.72" tall
Weight: 3.872
Language: English



Foreword



Ancient Times



The Middle Ages



The World of Islam: Cordoba, Seville



The World of Islam: Granada, Iran, Mogul India



The Renaissance in Tuscany



Rome and the Cinquecento



Roman Villas of Villeggiatura



Villa Lante and the Villino Farnese



Later Italian Villas, 1610-1785



The Piazza in Italy



Beginnings in France



Andreacute; le Nocirc;tre: Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles



England under the Tudors



Seventeenth-Century England



The English "Landscape Gardening School"