(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812225143)
Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-May-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512823851)
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the citys program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city mor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Apr-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512823585)
Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientif...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jul-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812253757)
In a many-sided examination of the artistic, cultural, and political worlds of Louis XIV, Thomas F. Hedin masterfully reveals how and why an elaborate fountain depicting the origin of frogs came to be the centerpiece of the gardens of Versailles--...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812225143)
Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812225150)
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Moss, stone, trees, and sand arranged in striking or natural-looking compositions: the tradition of establishing and refining the landscape has been the work of Japanese gardeners and designers for centuries. In Japanese Gardens and Landscapes,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Mar-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812252842)
A collection of texts for a broad audience of readers interested in learning more about the premodern natural world. This anthology aims to broaden and complicate the story of premodern nature writing in the West, whether for a student of early lite...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Mar-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812224733)
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Mar-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812250831)
Examining the intersection of literary tradition and horticultural innovation, The Language of Fruit traces how writers from Andrew Marvell to Jane Austen responded to the challenges posed by the evolving social, economic, and symbolic func...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812249996)
Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human habitation and everyday practice. What we take to...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812246742)
In Spaces in Translation, Christian Tagsold explores Japanese gardens in the West and ponders their history, the reasons for their popularity, and their connections to geopolitical events. He concludes that a process of cultural translation...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jul-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812244748)
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In Japanese Landscapes and Gardens, 1650-1950 Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context...Lasīt vairāk
John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, Jane Brown Gillette
Sērija : Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
(Izdošanas datums: 12-May-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812248005)
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collections common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them, and what we derive from that looking....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Mar-2016, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812223545)
Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitzs vivid...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jan-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812247633)
An annotated collection of essential texts written by European travelers from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries,Ideas of Chinese Gardens chronicles the evolution of Western perceptions of gardens of China, from curiosity to admirat...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Nov-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812223507)
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of cont...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812247558)
In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not inc...Lasīt vairāk
Gilles Clément, Sandra Morris, Gilles A. Tiberghien
Sērija : Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jul-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812247121)
Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clément may be best known for his public parks in Paris, including the Parc André Citroën and the garden of the Musée du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a gardener. To care f...Lasīt vairāk
Vįclav Cķlek, Morna Livingston, Evan W. Mellander, Laurie Olin
Sērija : Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Apr-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812246810)
The first book-length appearance of Václav Cíleks work in English translation, To Breathe with Birds delves into the imaginative and emotional bonds we form with landscapes and how human existence—a recent development,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Jul-2014, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812222913)
Accompanied by an introduction by John Dixon Hunt, this facsimile fully reproduces the 1948 edition ofGardens in the Modern Landscape, a manifesto for the modern garden that deeply influenced twentieth century landscape design....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812244809)
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Unearthed examines how one of Americas most significant landscape architecture firms approaches the redesign of public places to meet a range of ecological and social needs. With more than one hundred and fifty color and black-and-white im...Lasīt vairāk
