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Landscape & garden design

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Landscape & garden design (K300): The study of the design, construction and management of land-based space and scenery.

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Document A comparative study of Lady Hertford’s grotto at Marlborough and William Kent’s illustration of Spring in James Thomson's The Seasons. Richard D A Lamont

‘Poetry, Painting and Gardening, or the Science of Landscape, will forever by men of taste be deemed Three Sisters, or the Three Graces who dress...

History view
Document The Garden Controversy

A paper related to the previous module A Question of Density discussing the relationship between density and the use of garden land

Houses & housing, housing density view
Document ‘Embellished nature’: William Shenstone’s Contribution to English Landscape Gardening in the Mid-Eighteenth Century by Alison Mayne

The eighteenth century was a period of transition in English Landscape Gardening from a European- and classically-influenced formality to a...

18th century, Shenstone view
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