Entrée principale:

Steenbergen, Clemens M.

Titre et auteur:

Architecture and landscape : the design experiment of the great European gardens and landscapes / Clemens Steenbergen, Wouter Reh, with the co-operation of Gerrit Smienk.

Publication:

Description:

373, [4] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-377 and index.
The discovery of the landscape -- Conquering space -- The 'escape' from the architectronic system -- Historical and experimental research -- Typology and invention -- A "corso di disegno."
Topos and locus -- The villa urbana and the villa rustica -- The formal layering of the landscape.
Aspects of landscape architectronic form -- The basic form -- The spatial design -- The visual structure -- The programme form.
Arcadia as the urban ideal -- The transformation of the Hortus Conclusus -- The hidden geometry within nature -- Viewpoint, perspective and horizon -- The concept of rational stage management.
History -- Site -- Plan -- Geometry -- Integrazione scenica -- The Arcadian idyll -- Observatory and labyrinth.
Florence as a rational urban landscape -- The balcony garden.
Pliny's landscape theatre -- The Stanze garden.
The Roman villeggiatura -- Rome as a landscape theatre -- The terrace garden.
Movement and illusion -- The theatre garden.
Villeggiatura in the Roman Campagna -- Bosco, barco, barchetto -- The paradise garden.
Frascati as decor -- The façade garden.
The Veneto villeggiatura -- The Palladian country house -- Agriculture and Arcadia -- The empty garden.
Theatre and belvedere -- The disappearing garden.
Ch. II The magics of the formal -- The 17th-century Frnech residence.
The abstract concept of nature -- The magic of anamorphosis -- Trompe-l'œil -- Le jardin de plaisir -- The châteauz on the Loire and the Seine -- Richelieu : the ideal town -- The articical landscape of Paris -- The concept of formal stage management.
Menuet-trio-menuet : the ceremonial inauguration -- The present layout -- Site -- Interaction with the geomorphology -- The geometry of the plan -- The scenography of the axis -- The incorporation and manipulation of the horizon -- The visual control of infinity -- The illusion of perfect oder -- A synthetic Arcadia -- The ultimate transformation.
The main axis and the Grand Canal -- The transverse axes -- A vista of water, air and light -- The city as a reflecting image -- The patte d'oie as urban panorama -- The Grand Ensemble.
The formal origins of the Paris urban landscape -- A telescope to the open landscape of the Seine -- The Place de Concorde and the obscuring of the viewpoint -- The Arc de Triomphe and the materialization of the vanishing point -- The Champ-Élysées and the dismantling of the Arcadian image -- La Défense and the loss of balance -- La Grande Arche and the step over the horizon.
Ch. III The geometry of the picturesque -- the 18th century English landscape garden.
The individualization of time and space -- The dynamics of the Gregorian landscape -- The modernization of country life -- The picturesque tradition.
History -- Geomorphology and topography -- Stowe Ridings -- The formal system -- The topographic design matirx -- The landscape theatre -- Home Park -- The development of the layout -- Elysian Fields -- Hawkwell Field -- Grecian Valley -- Panoramic composition -- The scenography of Grand Avenue and Oxford Avenue -- Overview -- The picturesque moment.
History -- Topography and soil composition -- The house -- The woodland gardens -- Plan and landscape morphology -- The emergence of the landscape garden.
History -- Morphology and topography -- The landscape of Vanbrugh -- The landscape of Wise -- The landscape of Brown -- The dialectics and visual synthesis of the architectronic landscape.
History -- Morphology and typology -- Bridgeman's design -- Kent's design -- The hidden geometry of the panorama.
History -- Geology and topography -- Stourhead Park around 1722 -- The Great Oar Pasture -- The valley garden -- The Stourhead landscape -- The Arcadian initiation.
History -- Morphology and topography -- The landscape of Brown, 1772-1781 -- The additons by Repton, 1800 -- The natural picture plane.
History -- Hawkstone Hall, 1724-1783 -- The landscape garden, 1783-1809 -- The scenic walk -- See and shiver.
History -- Morphology and geography -- The Renaissance garden of 1690 -- The landscape garden of 1756 -- The Victorian garden, 1826-1850 -- The apotheosis of 300 years of garden design.

Résumé:

An analysis of western European landscape design. The book examines the relationship between the architecture of buildings, and that of land and cityscapes. The transportation of landscape design to urban design is analyzed and described using examples from different periods.

ISBN:

3791317202 (alk. paper)
9783791317205 (alk. paper)

Sujet:

Landscape architecture Europe History.
Landscape design Europe History.
Urban landscape architecture Europe History.
Gardens Europe Design History.
Architecture du paysage Europe Histoire.
Aménagement paysager Europe Histoire.
Paysage urbain Europe Histoire.
Jardins Architecture Europe Histoire.
Gardens Design.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape design.
Urban landscape architecture.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Architecture des jardins Europe.
Jardins Europe.
Dessins de paysages Europe histoire.
Europe Surveys.
Europe Levés.
Europe.
Gardens
ontwerp
design
landgoederen
estates
europa
europe
tuinen
geschiedenis
history
landschapsarchitectuur
parken
parks
plantmateriaal
planting stock
particulier eigendom
private ownership
landschapsbouw
landscaping
Landscape Architecture (General)
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Classification/genre:

History.
Surveys.

Vedettes secondaires:

Reh, Wouter.
Smienk, Gerrit.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 133988
Cote: ID SB470.55.E85.R44; ID:97-B359
Statut: Disponible