Acknowledgments

Mosser, Monique; Teyssot, Georges

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Acknowledgments

Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

Description: The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the...

The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day

Acknowledgments

Author

Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

PublisherMIT Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17740

Acknowledgments

A work such as this is the result of a collective effort on the part of many individuals, and it is therefore difficult to make proper acknowledgment for all the assistance received. Special thanks are due to the Department of the History of Architecture (IUAV), Venice, and to the Ministry of Education, Rome, for making research funds available for the collection of illustration material. The editors and publishers would also like to record their indebtedness to the Committee of Experts and all the authors, translators, editors, picture researchers, graphic artists, designers and photographers who have made valuable contributions to the work.

The texts by Georges Teyssot, Lionello Puppi, Luigi Zangheri, Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Paolo Carpeggiani, Gianni Venturi, Bruno Adorni, Margherita Azzi Visentini, Anna Maria Matteucci, Maurizio Gargano, Alessandra Ponte, Paolo Morachiello, Elisabetta Cereghini, Cesare De Seta, Eliana Mauro, Ettore Sessa, Marco De Michelis, Renzo Dubbini, Marco Pogačnik and Sergio Polano and all the captions were translated from the Italian by Wendy Dallas.

The texts by Monique Mosser, Anne-Marie Lecoq, Françoise Boudon, Hélène Vérin, Gérard Mabille, Antoine Schnapper, Marianne Roland Michel, Daniel Rabreau, Anne de Stoop, Antoinette Le Normand Romain, Jean de Cayeux, Thomas von Joest, Annick Brauman, Michel Racine, Catherine Royer and Isabelle Auricoste were translated from the French by Barbara Mellor.

The texts by Reinhard Zimmermann, Dorothee Nehring, Helmut Reinhardt, Dieter Hennebo, Hans-Christoph Dittscheid, Klaus von Krosigk, Vroni Heinrich and Birgit Wahmann were translated from the German by Sebastian Wormell.

The texts by Carmen Añón Feliú, Ignasi de Solà Morales and Fernando Aliata were translated from the Spanish by Anthony Bland.

The texts by Ulbe Martin Mehrtens, Carla S. Oldenburger-Ebbers and Jan van Asbeck were translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent.

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BOOKThe Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day

Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17739

The Architecture of Western Gardens presents an international tour of garden design from the Renaissance to the present. As object and as literature, it is an unprecedented resource. The more than seventy essays by scholars from Europe and America—all commissioned for this book—and over 650 illustrations raise the standard of garden literature to a new level. The result is an invaluable compendium that will serve as a fundamental starting point for exploring the many expressions of the place where nature and culture, project and diversion, work and pleasure meet.

Organized chronologically, the essays and illustrations make up a mosaic of the garden in the Western world. The humanist garden in Renaissance Italy, the concepts of the “Sublime” and the “Picturesque,” mazes, grottoes, and other curiosities, city parks, American land art, and even Disneyland are among the topics treated. Discussions of characteristic aspects of history and theory are followed by analyses of individual gardens as paradigms of their type: the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg, the Parc Monceau in Paris, the Park Guell in Barcelona, Stowe in England, and many more.

The illustrations are a model of how iconography can function as text. They include ground plans meticulously redrawn from original archival material to provide precise information on the scale and nature of many of the projects, as well as a wealth of drawings, reconstructions, paintings, and photographs.

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Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)

PublisherMIT Press

Print publication date August 1991 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780262132640

EISBN 9780300238761

Illustrations 630

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