Regional Garden Design in the United States

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 15
• Regionalism has become a much-discussed design issue for landscape architects in recent years. Increased mobility, uprootedness, and the pace of chang... Lees meer

River Cities, City Rivers

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 39
• Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can shape a city's success or cause its destruction. At the same time, city-b... Lees meer

Clio in the Italian Garden

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• Italian gardens have received more attention from historians than perhaps any other garden tradition. This volume presents eight richly illustrated es... Lees meer

Designing Wildlife Habitats

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• The vision of a garden shared peacefully by humans and animals is a familiar, but elusive, landscape trope. Whether threatened by habitat destruction ... Lees meer

Baroque Garden Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 25
• Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of... Lees meer

Places of Commemoration

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• "Everyone is occupied, consciously or unconsciously, with identity--one's origin and the question of one's place in humankind and society of the past,... Lees meer

Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations and Cultural Changes

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the re... Lees meer

Ancient Roman Gardens

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
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Interlacing Words and Things

Stephen Bann, Yves Abrioux, Mahvash Alemi, Malcolm Andrews, Frederick Asher, Patricia Diaz Cayeros

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 33
• Interlacing Words and Things: Bridging the Nature-Culture Opposition in Gardens and Landscape examines the various ways in which the natural world has... Lees meer

Performance and Appropriation

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, ... Lees meer

Military Landscapes

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 42
• Among the various human interventions in landscape, war has left one of the most lasting and eloquent records, literally inscribed on the face of the ... Lees meer

John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. He left an immensel... Lees meer

Nature and Ideology

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• This volume explores the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implicatio... Lees meer

Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes... Lees meer

Landscape and the Academy

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 40
• Universities are custodians of some of the most significant designed landscapes in the world. The planning of the academic campus has historically und... Lees meer

Food and the City

Dorothee Imbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 36
• Food and the City explores the physical, social, and political relations between the production of food and urban settlements. Its thirteen essays dis... Lees meer

The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• In 1988-1989 the three hundredth anniversary of an important historical event, the ascension of William and Mary to the thrones of England and Scotlan... Lees meer

Technology and the Garden

• Paperback | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 35
• Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors,... Lees meer

The Vernacular Garden

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• The study of vernacular gardening is a new departure for scholarly investigations of gardening practices and forms. While much has been written on the... Lees meer

Landscapes for Sport

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit
• Sport is deeply embedded in human nature and culture, and it is central to human well-being. Outdoor sport and physical exercise have had considerable... Lees meer

Sound and Scent in the Garden

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 38
• While we often approach gardens as things to be seen--thus engaging the rational, intellectual part of the human brain-- Sound and Scent in the Garden... Lees meer

Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Archit | nr. 37
• Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the longest occupied and least studied landscapes on earth. While scholarship has been attentive to images of nature made... Lees meer