Main entry:

White, Roger, 1950- author.

Title & Author:

Georgian Arcadia : architecture for the park and garden / Roger White.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Georgian garden building: an overview -- Buildings of the approach -- 2. Lodges -- 3. Arches -- 4. Bridges and cascades -- Buildings for relaxation and entertainment -- 5. Gazebos -- 6. Rotundas, octagons and umbrellos -- 7. Seats and alcoves -- 8. Summerhouses, banqueting houses and pavilions -- 9. Temples -- 10. Towers -- 11. Bathhouses and boathouses -- Buildings of sensibility -- 12. Grottoes and shell houses -- 13. Hermitages and rustic buildings -- 14. Obelisks, pyramids and columns -- 15. Ruins, eyecatchers and follies -- 16. Mausolea and monuments buildings of unity -- Buildings of utility -- 17. Churches and chapels -- 18. Practical buildings -- 19. Greenhouses, orangeries and conservatories -- 20. The influence of British garden buildings on the Continent.

Summary:

The invention and evolution of the Georgian landscape garden liberated garden buildings from the corset of formality, allowing them to structure much more extensive areas of garden and park. One of the leading authorities on Georgian landscape architecture, Roger White explores a genre in which some of the era's greatest architects experimented with different forms, styles, and new technology. Covering not just the obvious adornments of parks and gardens such as temples, summerhouses, grottoes, towers and "follies," the book also explores structures with predominantly practical functions including mausolea, boathouses, dovecotes, stables, kennels, deer pens, barns, and cowsheds, all of which could be dressed up to make an architectural impact. White examines these structures not only architecturally but from a functional and cultural viewpoint, considering questions of stylistic origins and development. Focussing on the contributions of Britain's leading eighteenth-century architects - Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Kent, Adam, Chambers, Wyatt, and Soane - Georgian Arcadia provides a richly illustrated account of a period of innovative and diverse garden building.

ISBN:

0300249950 (hardback)
9780300249958 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture, Georgian Great Britain.
Outbuildings Great Britain History.
Garden structures Great Britain History.
Pavilions Great Britain History.
Architecture Georgian Grande-Bretagne.
Dépendances Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Constructions de jardins Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Pavillons (Constructions légères) Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Gardens, Georgian
Landscape architecture
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317649
Call No.: 317649
Copy: 1
Status: Available