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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.09
EAN num: 9780810942530
ISBN number: 0810942534
Label: Harry N. Abrams
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Page Count: 544
Printing Date: November 01, 2001
Publishing house: Harry N. Abrams
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People have shaped the landscape around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City of Beijing, Versailles, and New York's Central Park. Overflowing with hundreds of plans, drawings, and photographs, many created specially for this book, this engrossing volume spans the history of landscape design and reveals a great deal about the development of societies, and how cities, parks, and gardens embody cultural values.
Examining famous and lesser-known sites, some now vanished, this comprehensive survey leads the reader from ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries to the magnificent gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Europe, and from great 18th-century English estates and American public gardens to the earthworks and other landscape projects of today.
A feast for the historian, landscape designer, and gardener alike, this new book has no equal.
630 illustrations, 430 in full color, 544 pages, 85/8 x 111/2'
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This book is long and overly verbose, but an excellent resource. As a text in a landscape architecture history class it was a strong foundation.
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Excellent excellent text- very thorough, good pictures. Even if you're not in a class, good reading!
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As the founding president of the famous Central Park Conservancy and of Cityscape Institute, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers summarized her experience, research and observations and her extensive training in art history and city planning in "Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History."
"Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History" covers architecture, landscape architecture, conservation, city planning, earthworks, and other landscape designs in many different cultures from dawn of humanity to present, such as Stonehenge, ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries, gardens of Renaissance, Baroque Europe, English naturalistic Landscape, the Forbidden City of Beijing, Versailles, and New York's Central Park, etc.
For many years, "The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day" used to be the only comprehensive book covering landscape architecture at a grand scale, with striking bird's eye view photos showing how brilliant human beings can be. "Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History" can supplement "The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day" since it provides more in-depth discussions.
"Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History" has 544 pages and 633 line drawings and dazzling interior photographs (many of them are color). It is a valuable landscape design history book for landscape architecture students, seasoned design professionals and ordinary garden lovers!
Gang Chen, Author of "LEED AP Exam Guide" & "Planting Design Illustrated." LEED AP, AIA
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This is one of the most tedious books that I've ever read. It focuses more on historical, cultural and politcal influences than actual garden design. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you're in need of a good night's sleep.
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This is a great book. It is very readable, and even if you are not particularly interested in landscape design/architectural history, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers will inspire you. This book follows landscape and cultural architecture through history and makes me wonder why all schools - from elementary on up - don't attack history lessons from such a practical and fascinating point of view.
Also, compared with other landscape Arch books this is much less narrow and really weaves in many many threads of cultural and historical interest.
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