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Автор: Christopher Tunnard
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Жанр произведения: Техническая литература
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isbn: 9780812290042
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href="#ulink_61b07e74-f13b-5a95-8e2d-6692ec8e0393">25. See image in 1948, p. 68. Other images of the wall are in Brown, figs. 23 and (for the wall) 24. Tunnard’s various garden projects, which cannot be discussed fully in this context, are discussed fully in Jacques and Woudstra, though the relevant discussions are somewhat scattered through the volume. This is especially useful for Tunnard’s work at Gaulby, see below.

      GARDENS

      IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPE

       First edition printed 1938Second (revised) edition printed 1948

      Printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons Ltd., Guildford and Esher

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      GARDENS

      IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPE

       By Christopher Tunnard

       Associate Professor of City Planning, Yale University

      Second (revised) edition with new material on American Gardens, and a note on the Modern Garden by Dean Joseph Hudnut of Harvard University

      London: The Architectural Press

      New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons

      CONTENTS

       FOREWORD

       LANDSCAPE INTO GARDEN

       I. Reason and Romanticism

       The Grotto. A manifestation of the taste for “Awful Beauty” in the eighteenth-century garden

       II. The Verdant Age

       A Garden Landscape, 1740. Pain’s Hill, Surrey

       III. Pictures versus Prospects

       A Garden Landscape, 1840. Redleaf, Penshurst

       THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRADITION

       I. Victorian Ideals

       II. Colour and the Cottage Garden

       III. Science and Specialization

       TOWARDS A NEW TECHNIQUE

       I. Functional Aspects of Garden Planning

       II. Asymmetrical Garden Planning

       III. Art and Ornament

       Modern Interpretations of Traditional Forms

       IV. The Planter’s Eye

       Architects’ Plants

       GARDEN INTO LANDSCAPE

       I. Gardens in the Modern Landscape

       The Garden in the Landscape. A summary of characteristic development over 200 years

       II. Community Gardens

       III. A Solution for Today

       The Minimum Garden

       A Garden Landscape in Transition. Claremont, Surrey

       IV. The Wider Planning

       MODERN AMERICAN GARDENS

      THE MODERN GARDEN. By Joseph Hudnut

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

      FOREWORD

      IT is now ten years since the material in these pages first appeared in The Architectural Review. Very little creative work has been done during the interval owing to the war. The author, like everyone else, has been engaged in other occupations, with little time for reflection on the charm of natural things; but since it is his publisher’s and his own opinion that the book should reappear very much in its original form, a few remarks on conclusions reached during this relatively inactive period may not come amiss.

      The opinion expressed in the book that the eighteenth-century invention of landscape gardening was among the most notable