Contributions

  • Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. - Contributor
  • Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (18th : 1995) - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1006359M
  • ISBN-100884022463
  • OCLC Control Number35688193
  • Library of Congress Control Number96046176
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  • LibraryThing3204893

Classifications

  • DDC712/.01
  • LCCSB439 .N43 1997

Description

This volume explores the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. The desire to produce a natural garden design has fascinated many professional and lay designers, and the various contributions in this volume investigate their use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the immensely rich model that nature offers. The work of early twentieth-century natural garden advocates is discussed in regard to its relevance to contemporary design approaches. These ideas of natural garden design helped shape much of twentieth-century landscape architecture in both the United States and Europe, and the ideologies underlying various concepts of natural gardens show how political, economic, and social developments influenced design programs and decisions.

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Topics

Other Editions

  • Nature and ideology: natural garden design in the twentieth centuryDumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection1997-01-01

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