Art 275
The History of Landscape Architecture
eFall 2011
TTh 11:00-12:15, Fine Arts 102
Harry Titus


On reserve in the ZSR library:

F. Hamilton Hazlehurst. Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of Andre le Nostre, Nashville, 1980.

John Dixon Hunt and Peter Willis, eds. The Genius of the Place, Cambridge, MA 1988.

Claudia Lazzaro. The Italian Renaissance Garden, New Haven, 1990.

Christopher Thacker. The History of Gardens, California, 1979.

Peter Walker and Melanie Simo. Invisible Gardens; The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, Cambridge, MA 1994.
Date Topic Reading

 
Sep1 Introduction to garden history and bibliography
Sep 6
Pre-Renaissance Gardens Handouts: text of Pliny's letters
Sep 8
Renaissance Italy
Thacker: Chapter 6
Sep 13
Renaissance Italy

Sep 15
Villa Madama and Villa Guilia  
Sep 20
Villa Lante Lazzaro, Chapter 10
Sep 22
North Italy
Sep 27
The Villa d'Este at Tivoli Lazzaro, Chapter 9
Sep 29
Pratolino

Oct 4 Bomarzo  
Oct 6
Frascati and villegiatura

Oct 11
Le Notre, Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles Thacker, Chapter 10 and Hazlehurst, Chapter 2
Oct 13 Versailles  
Oct 18
French Gardens
Thacker, Chapter 9
Oct 20 Mid-term exam  

 
Oct 25
Asian Gardens Thacker, Chapters 3 and 4
Oct 27 Asian Gardens  
Nov 1
German Gardens  
Nov 3
Naturalizing trends in England Thacker, Chapter 12
Nov8
Stowe
Hunt and Willia, 215-227
Nov 10 Lancelot "Capablity" Brown Thacker, Chapter 14
Nov 15
Humphrey Repton, the "Painterly" and "Picturesque" Hunt and Willis, 358-367
Nov 17
The Gardenesque
Thacker, Chapter 15
Nov 22
Public Parks Walker and Simo, 2-29
Nov 29
Roberto Burle-Marx Walker and Simo, 56-91
Dec 1
Modernist Gardens Walker and Simo, 92-115
Dec 6
Contemporary Garden trends

Dec 8
Contemporary Garden trends  

 
Final exam Tuesday, December 13, 9 AM
Fine Arts 102

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