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LARCH 060
Thursday February 25th, 1999
Announcements: none
Lecture notes:
ENGLISH LANDSCAPE SCHOOL (later):
Land/environment:
- Agricultural Landscape
- The ideal VS the real
- Nature's aesthetic (picture), health
Socio-cultural milieu:
- The beautiful VS the picturesque
- Industrialization
Design Expression:
- The beautiful: (Brown vocabulary)--cleaned up and
manicured
- The picturesque: variety, sudden, rugged looking, designs
had broken lines/surfaces, rough textures, natural
occurrences
- Humphrey Brown: Had a talent for
painting and illustrating landscapes....went into
landscaping. He also wrote books on creating space,
arranging and lighting. He used slides of before/after
designs as a salesman
- Sherringham: An estate along the west
coast created by Repton. He used his salesmanship to
convice owner to have his house on the leeward side of
the hill
- Brown sometimes built on things that were already there
- Brown was not universely loved...some felt that his
sweeping away of geometric areas was wrong AND/OR boring
- Between Brown and Repton, they landscaped all of England
- The Industrial Revolution started in England in 17-19
centuries ....cities and landscapes were marred (much
chaos) so the refuge that was created was nature, as
opposed to the human refuge.
- City of Bath: intended to be green
landscape... offers unique landscape opprutunities. The
city is contained, so you are aware of the countryside.
It was built on Roman/Medieval foundation almost all
wiped out. Replaced with light stone buildings.
Incorporated green space into city (old trees, circle
inside city, crescent idea intended for embracing green
area). Much turf and grass, tree clusters, overlooking
parks
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