The Venetian City Garden : Place, Typology, and Perception

ISBN-13: 9783764389437 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 223 str.

John Dixon Hunt

Opis

Fur die Entwicklung von -Landschaft- als Konzept hat keine Stadt eine grossere Rolle gespielt als Venedig. Aus beinahe hundert Stadtgarten, Stadtplatzen und Hofen, offentlichen Parks und temporaren Garten destilliert das Buch Elemente der Gartengestaltung und eine Typologie von Garten in dichter, historisch gesattigter Bausubstanz. "

Spis treści

Preface.- APPROACHING THE VENETIAN CITY GARDEN.- I: Differing perceptions. II: Imagining and inhabiting the city.- III: On writing the history of the Venetian city garden.- GROUNDS OF BEING: GARDEN-MAKING AND THE LAGOON ECOLOGY.- I: Land from the sea.- II: A repertoire of garden-like spaces.- VENETIAN GARDENS IN THE YEAR 1500.- I: Gardens in Jacopo de' Barbari's bird's-eye view.- II: Garden layout and design elements: descriptions by 16th-century painters and writers.- III: A typology of the Venetian garden.- CASE HISTORIES OF SELECTED SITES.- Cannaregio.- Castello.- Santa Croce.- Dorsoduro.- San Marco.- San Polo.- Giudecca.- GIARDINI MINORI.- Botanical and pharmaceutical gardens.- Monastic gardens.- GARDEN, THEATRE, AND CITY.- Spectacles and ad hoc gardens.- The Casino in the garden.- Layout of garden spaces.- THE INVENTION OF PUBLIC GARDENS FOR THE MODERN CITY. - Napoleon's garden interventions.- A laboratory for the modern city.- The Royal Gardens and the Botanical Garden at San Giobbe.- OLD RUINED GARDENS AND NEW MODERN GARDENS.- "Ruin" and reality.- The advent of "Picturesque" designs.- A repertoire for future gardens.- POSSIBLE GARDENS: GROUNDS FOR CHANGE.

O autorze

John Dixon Hunt is Professor Emeritus of the University of Philadelphia School of Design at Pennsylvania. Among his many publications are: The Genius of the Place, MIT Press; The Picturesque Garden in Europe, Thames & Hudson; The Afterlife of Gardens, Reaktion Press); L'art du Jardin et son Histoire, Odile Jacob; Nature Over Again: the Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Reaktion Press.