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12 Cards in this Set
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Capability Brown
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• Artificial, formal curved lines
• Clumps, belts and scattering of trees • Serpentine lakes formed by invisibly damming small rivers • Smooth undulating grass |
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Olmsted
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• pastoral : vast expanses of green with small lakes, trees and groves
• picturesque: rocky, broken terrain with teeming shrubs, played with light and shade, sense of mystery, • designed to enhance the sense of space: indistinct boundaries using plants, brush and trees as opposed to sharp ones |
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Jens Jensen
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Council rings, Plants of the mid-west
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Charles Platt
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• Major axis
• Rigid formality • Unity of house and grounds |
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Dan Burnham
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• Chicago Architect
• Columbian Exposition • No cars |
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Haussmann
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• Redesign of Paris
• Engineer • Sanitary, organize troops/monuments |
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Ebenezer Howard
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• Garden city movement
• 3 Magnets: Town, Country, Town-Country |
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Andrew Jackson Downing
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• Philosophy: People’s pride in their country is connected to pride in their homes
• Confronted America for having no parks |
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Jacob Weienmann
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Engineer, artist, Bushnell Park
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HWS Cleveland
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• Natural design, preservationist
• Open space • Existing topography • Separation of roads • Counters gridiron |
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Charles Eliot
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Develops methodology for management and preservation
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Gertrude Jekyll
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• Formal/informal
• Genius loci, “sense of place” • Micro-seasonal interest • Site lines |
