Georgian Arcadia: Architecture for the Park and Garden

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The invention and evolution of the Georgian landscape garden liberated garden buildings from the corset of formality, allowing them to structure much more extensive areas of garden and park. One of the leading authorities on Georgian landscape architecture, Roger White explores a genre in which some of the eras greatest architects experimented with different forms, styles, and new technology. Covering not just the obvious adornments of parks and gardens such as temples, summerhouses, grottoes, towers, and follies, the book also explores structures with predominantly practical functions, including mausolea, boathouses, dovecotes, stables, kennels, deer pens, barns, and cowsheds, all of which could be dressed up to make an architectural impact. White examines these structures not only architecturally but from a functional and cultural viewpoint, considering questions of stylistic origins and development. Focussing on the contributions of Britains leading eighteenth-century architectsVanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Kent, Adam, Chambers, Wyatt, and SoaneGeorgian Arcadiaprovides a richly illustrated account of a period of innovative and diverse garden building.

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Georgian Arcadia: Architecture for the Park and Garden

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