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Title: Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture by Norman T. Newton ISBN: 0-674-19870-0 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1971 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Pontification, Sweeping Generalizations, 1920s Worldview
Comment: Unfortunately, gentle reader, you're likely to have this book assigned to you as part of your landscape architecture curriculum. If you're not in this situation, run from this book. First, the book was published in 1971, with no noticible updates in the past 33 years. Second, despite the relative modernity of the book, the author seems unaware of any advances in the social sciences and liberal arts after the Hoover administration. Thirdly the book rambles--no incision, no succinct observations, no underlying theme. Fourthly, Newton loads the book with indefensible positions. Fifthly, author weaves a cursory and grossly simplified (reduced) version of world history into an analysis of gardens and town plans. The result is horrid. Here is an example:
From the chapter on Medieval gardens--"It is almost as though man's eyes were not yet wholly open to the wonders of the natural world, for he was too buy contemplating his soul and its tortuous future. Daylight was too bright to bear; these were truly the Dark Ages, and openness to worldly experience would have to wait."
These types of generalizations, which don't stand up to even a cursory understanding of the gardens of the Middle Ages (herbalists, medicinal gardens, plurality of plant species growing in cloisters, flora in illuminated manuscripts, etc), that pepper the book.
This doesn't even begin to address the the ubiquitous invocations of "Mankind."
No university worth its salt can put this in front of a student in good conscience.
Rating: 3
Summary: WARNING: Boy's Club-- No Girls Allowed
Comment: Unfortunately this purportedly comprehensive survey of landscape architecture fails to include even one woman in the entire history of the profession. It's as though the female gender never existed! It is inexcusable that this book is still in current use as a university text.
Rating: 5
Summary: Design on the Land : The Development of Landscape Architectu
Comment: This is THE textbook for the history of landscape architecture. From early city planning in the cradle of civilization to recreating nature in the design work of our contemporaries, this book provides a chronology of land designs and theories, and outlines the formalizing of our profession by the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmstead. This book provides a framework for more intense study of both landscapes and the design theories associated with them, including the layout of ancient cities to New York's Central Park. This is one of those textbooks worth keeping well after graduation!
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Title: The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day by Geoffrey Jellicoe, Susan Jellicoe, Janet Waymark ISBN: 0500278199 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers ISBN: 0810942534 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Landscapes in History, 2nd Edition (One Volume) by Philip Pregill, Nancy Volkman ISBN: 0471293288 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $120.00 |
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Title: Site Engineering for Landscape Architects by Steven Strom, Kurt Nathan ISBN: 047129196X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order by Frank D.K. Ching, Francis D. Ching ISBN: 0471286168 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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