The Small Place: Its Landscape Architecture - Couverture souple

Rehmann, Elsa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 159416066X ISBN 13 : 9781594160660

Editeur : Westholme Publishing, U.S., 2008

Synopsis

Book by Rehmann Elsa

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A valuable collection of material has been gathered in this book for the benefit of the student or for the owner who is to understand the ideas of his landscape architect. An unusual feature is the uniform method of presentation used in all the plans, and the explanatory key plan indicating the kinds of line which represent grass, flowers, shrubs, trees, steps, and so on. Each landscape architect's plan has been redrawn in pen and ink to suitable scale by the same illustrator, Mr. B. Y. Morrison, so that exceptional intelligibility and a pleasing unity result. The photographs used (their viewpoints indicated by arrows on the plans) are also well chosen and well reproduced.
Within the limits of the scope set,—the small estate, — a variety of problems is included, representing the work of the following landscape architects: H. A. Caparn, Elizabeth Bootes Clark, Marian C. Coffin, E. Gorton Davis, A. S. DeForest, C. N. Lowrie, Warren H. Manning, Olmsted Brothers, Pray, Hubbard and White, Prentice Sanger, Arthur A. Shurtleff, Sibley C. Smith, and Elizabeth Leonard Strang. The text sympathetically sets forth the ideas of the landscape designers, with comments, and touches general principles of estate design as these are brought out by the examples under discussion. Planting design is well emphasized, but not at the expense of the total effect. Some of the chapters, since revised, appeared as articles in House and Garden and The Garden Magazine.
Miss Rehmann's interest in the "small place" was brought to the attention of readers of Landscape Architecture in the July number, when the results of her competition on that subject were announced.
–Landscape Architecture Magazine, Vol. 9 [1918]

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Westholme Publishing, U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 159416066X
• ISBN 13: 9781594160660
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 280