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Regional garden design in the United States

Title: Regional garden design in the United States / edited by Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1995], ©1995.

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vi, 321 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

Regionalism has become a much-discussed design issue for landscape architects in recent years. Increased mobility, uprootedness, and the pace of change in an increasingly technological society have all contributed to interest in the concept because it places value on cultural continuity in local areas.
This approach to garden design deliberately takes into account the region and attempts to capture the spirit of the place, the plant material, and symbolic qualities that define its natural and cultural character. The articles in this volume lay a foundation for examining regionalism in American garden design. The organization of the papers is by geographical area: the West Coast, the Midwest, the South, and New England.
. Wilhelm Miller's seminal essay of 1915, The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening, has been reprinted as an appendix. This essay, which is frequently cited but rarely seen, is often regarded as the "regionalist" manifesto.

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Note

Selected papers from the 15th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, held in 1991.

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Contents

Foreword / Therese O'Malley and Marc Treib -- Introduction / John Dixon Hunt -- Aspects of Regionality and the Modern(ist) Garden in California / Marc Treib -- Making Gardens in the Athens of the West: Bernard Maybeck and the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition in Landscape and Garden Design / Dianne Harris -- Fast-Tracking Culture and Landscape: Horace William Shaler Cleveland and the Garden in the Midwest / Lance M. Neckar -- The Prairie Gardens of O. C. Simonds and Jens Jensen / Robert E. Grese -- Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation Gardens: Translating an Ancient Idyll / C. Allan Brown -- Roots of a Regional Garden Tradition: The Drawings of the New Orleans Notarial Archives / Suzanne Turner -- On Public Landscape Design Before the Civil War, 1830-1860 / James S. Ackerman -- Regionalism in Frederick Law Olmsted's Social Thought and Landscape Design Practice / Charles E. Beveridge -- Regionalism and the Practice of Hanna/Olin, Ltd. / Laurie Olin --
Wilhelm Miller and The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening / Christopher Vernon -- The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening, University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular 184 (1915) / Wilhelm Miller.

ISBN

0884022234

LCCN

93023720

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