Technology and the garden / Michael G. Lee and Kenneth I. Helphand, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dumbarton Oaks.

John Dixon Hunt Fund.

Lee, Michael G., 1962-

Helphand, Kenneth I.

Conference Name:

"Technology and the Garden" (Symposium) (2011 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; XXXV.

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; XXXV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture.

History.

Landscape construction.

Garden ornaments and furniture--Design and construction.

Garden ornaments and furniture--Design and construction--History--Congresses.

Garden ornaments and furniture.

Landscape construction--History--Congresses.

Landscape architecture--History--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 302 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2014]

Summary:

Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors, the expanse of technical knowledge and expertise. At once material, intellectual, active, and social, technology is the purposeful organization of human effort to alter and shape the environment. Gardens, like other designed landscapes, are products of a range of technologies; their layout, construction, and maintenance would be unthinkable without technology. What are the technologies of garden making, what are the concepts and ideas behind garden technologies, and what is the meaning and experience of those endeavors? Technology and the Garden examines the shaping and visualization of the landscape; the development of horticultural technologies; the construction of landscape through hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure; and the effect of emerging technologies on the experience of landscape. These essays demonstrate how the technics of the garden can be hidden or revealed, disguised beneath the earth or celebrated on the surface. How designers have approached technology, in all historical periods and in a diversity of places and cultures, is a central question in landscape studies.

Contents:

Introduction : Technology and the garden / Michael G. Lee and Kenneth I. Helphand

Part I. Visualizing and shaping the landscape : The engineer-poet and his garden-poem: Ronsard's Bocages / Tom Conley

Optical instrumenta[liza]tion and modernity at Versailles: from measuring the earth to leveling in French seventeenth-century gardens / Georges Farhat

Part II. Horticultural technologies : Greenhouse technologies and horticulture: the 1st Duchess of Beaufort's Badminton florilegium (1703-5) and J.J. Dillenius's Hortus elthamensis (1732) / Mark Laird

"Much better contrived and built then any other in England": stoves and other structures for the cultivation of exotic plants at Hampton Court Palace, 1689-1702 / Jan Woudstra

Part III. Landscape construction: hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure : Garden hydraulics in pre-Sistine Rome: theory and practice / Katherine Rinne

"L'anima del giardino": water, gardens, and hydraulics in sixteenth-century Florence and Naples / Anatole Tchikine

The practical side of paradise: garden-making in Ming Dynasty China / Alison Hardie

Infrastructure as landscape embellishment: Peter Joseph Lenné in Potsdam and Berlin / Michael G. Lee

Part IV. Emerging technologies and landscape experience : Gardens of the moon: the modern cine-nocturne / Scott M. MacDonald

Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) and heraldic crests for invasive species (photo essay) / Marina Zurkow

Green-roofs and the idea of the wild thing: the economics of manipulating nature / Claudia Dias and Ross von Burg

The robot in the garden / Nikolaus Correll.

Notes:

"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXXV."

"Based on papers presented at the symposium "Technology and the Garden," organized with Diana Balmori and Mark Laird and held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 6-7, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Dixon Hunt Fund.

ISBN:

9780884023968

0884023966

OCLC:

854285662

Publisher Number:

99980924439

40023616786