This series introduces innovative work in landscape architecture and serves as a venue for important critical, practical, theoretical, and historical works to make their appearance in print. The full scope of concerns in the field—from gardens to regional planning, from private to public, present to future, from design to garden history—is embraced by Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Books in the series are intended for practitioners, academics, and general readers. Recipient of the Award of Honor in Comunications from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006.
Series Editor:
John Dixon Hunt
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief wbiggins@upenn.edu
Nine studies focused on East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos.
Paris’s late twentieth-century parks—ambitious, innovative, controversial—illustrate the height of postmodern design and urban planning. Amanda Shoaf Vincent examines five major parks to reveal how they draw upon garden models, the city’s history, and their local context to redefine the relationship between green space and the urban environment.
Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles
Thomas F. Hedin
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253757
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
In his masterful study, Thomas F. Hedin reveals how and why a fountain of the strange legend of Latona was erected in the heart of Versailles in the 1660s, the inaugural decade of Louis XIV’s patronage there. His original argument is that Latona was a double declaration: a glorification of the king and a proud manifesto by artists.
Moss, stone, trees, and sand arranged in striking or natural-looking compositions: the tradition of establishing and refining the landscape has been the work of Japanese gardeners and designers for...
With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal.
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Liz Bellamy
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812250831
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Examining the intersection of literary tradition and horticultural innovation, The Language of Fruit traces how writers from Andrew Marvell to Jane Austen responded to the challenges posed by the evolving social, economic, and symbolic functions of fruit over the long eighteenth century.
Flora's Empire brings new light to the complex history of British imperialism in India and its post-Independence legacy. Aided by beautiful period illustrations, it focuses on three centuries of official, domestic, and botanical gardens, as well as on memorial gardens and restorations of Muslim and Hindu sites.
Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitz's vivid descriptions and recollections allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels.
Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.
