Georgian Arcadia : architecture for the park and garden /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2023].
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| 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. Focusing 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 352 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300249950 9780300249958 |