History of gardens

Teacher(s)

Vanden Eynde Jean-Louis;

Language

French

Main themes

Introduction the art of garden design, adaptation to the site, layout, strategy of how the garden unfolds.
The constants are:

• what can be made of height, aspect, views
• control of the hydraulics
• working with boundaries and links
• use of perspective and colour
• visual and/or real pathways
• architecture of plants
• symbolic repertoire.

The period covered stretches from the 1^st to the 20^th century:
Gardens from Antiquity, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, classical, landscape or romantic, historic and contemporary gardens.

Bibliography

ALLAIN Y.-M., CHRISTIANY J. L'art des jardins en Europe, de l'évolution des idées et des savoir-faire, Citadelles & Mazenod, Tours, 2006
BENETIERE M.-H., Principes d'analyse scientifique, Jardin, vocabulaire typologique et technique, Editions du Patrimoine, Paris, 2000
KLUCKERT Ehrenfried, Parcs et jardins en Europe de l'antiquité à nos jours, Könemann, Cologne, 2000

Faculty or entity

LOCI