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American Garden Design: An Anthology of Ideas that Shaped Our Landscape

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: USA Macmillan 1994Description: xiii,256 p. HB 24x16 cmISBN:
  • 0671799215
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 712 MCGA
Summary: Garden design in America has a rich and exciting history, and this first-ever volume traces the evolution of garden design in this country through the seminal ideas and writings of twenty-three influential designers from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. American Garden Design examines the changing theories and social styles that helped to shape American gardens. The excerpts in American Garden Design were selected by the eminent designer Diane Kostial McGuire, and they are arranged chronologically from the late eighteenth century to the present. This organization provides an overview of landscape design thinking from formal styles of such gardens as Monticello and those of the Victorian era to the eclectic approaches of the present.
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George Fernandes Collections George Fernandes Collections St Aloysius Library General 712 MCGA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GF03600
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Garden design in America has a rich and exciting history, and this first-ever volume traces the evolution of garden design in this country through the seminal ideas and writings of twenty-three influential designers from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. American Garden Design examines the changing theories and social styles that helped to shape American gardens.
The excerpts in American Garden Design were selected by the eminent designer Diane Kostial McGuire, and they are arranged chronologically from the late eighteenth century to the present. This organization provides an overview of landscape design thinking from formal styles of such gardens as Monticello and those of the Victorian era to the eclectic approaches of the present.

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