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Follies in America
Follies in America examines
historicized garden buildings, known as \"follies,\" from the
nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in
1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such
as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins-brought a range of
European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting
the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners
brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness.
Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in
America examines both buildings and their counterparts in
literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window
into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including
tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the
ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class
aspirations.
eBook
Application of style transfer algorithm in the integration of traditional garden and modern design elements
With the development of society, modern design elements are increasingly integrated into traditional garden design, forming a novel style fusion that improves both aesthetics and the sustainability of the social-ecological system. This study explores the application of style transfer algorithms to seamlessly integrate the aesthetics of traditional landscape paintings with virtual scenes of classical private gardens. The effectiveness of the method is verified through a series of experiments using virtual scenes of the Humble Administrator’s Garden and various landscape paintings representing different artistic styles. The experimental results demonstrate that the style transfer technique can accurately replicate the aesthetic features of traditional paintings and integrate them into the virtual garden environment. This approach highlights the potential of combining cultural heritage with advanced technological methods, indicating that the technology has great potential to innovate garden design by promoting the synergy between cultural heritage and technological innovation. By promoting the integration of traditional aesthetics and modern design principles, we contribute to the sustainability and richness of the social-ecological system and provide a framework for future digital preservation and restoration applications of urban cultural heritage. The code for implementing TRD-Net is available at https://github.com/huangbei029/Hybrid-Garden-StyleNet-dd/tree/main .
Journal Article
Build a better vegetable garden : 30 DIY projects to improve your harvest
Joyce and Ben Russell have devised 30 kitchen garden projects that will transform your vegetable plot into somewhere more productive, more attractive and more secure.
Book
Characterization and mapping of enset-based home-garden agroforestry for sustainable landscape management of the Gurage socioecological landscape in Ethiopia
Developing strategies that counter the ongoing homogenization trends of home-garden agroforestry systems is required to maintain diversity and sustainability. This study aimed to map and characterize traditional enset-based home-garden agroforestry for managing sustainability in the Gurage socioecological landscape in Ethiopia. We generated plots and land use land cover (LULC) spatial data from orthophotomosaic and collected household survey data of the field. Five home-garden types were identified explicitly through integrating the home-garden composition, functional structure, and agroecological zones. Most home-garden types had similar horizontal functional structures in which perennial crops were planted close to homesteads, annual crops grew in outer fields, and woodlots were located at the end of the parcel. Diverse woody species, crop varieties, and plot sizes were identified in individual household parcels, and these varied across the home-garden types. Enset-based home-garden agroforestry production has been declining in the Ethiopian landscape because of socioeconomic changes and a lack of technological inputs. These challenges may compromise the community’s food security with loss of the product diversity provided by the home-garden system. Thus, technological adoptions and scaling up of agroforestry practices according to the home-garden types are necessary for the continue provision of multiple contributions. This study demonstrated site-specific spatial characterization of the agroforestry systems by considering a holistic approach to reduce the local challenges and support the development of sustainable landscape management in an altering socioecological landscape.
Journal Article
The Monster in the Garden
Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged.In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.
eBook
Breathing and living wall
Bringing nature into an urban setting in a particularly challenging part of twenty-first century urban planning and design. This book documents and illustrates wonderful examples of the solution: Plant Walls, or Green Walls, as they're often called. Included are examples from airports, hotels, conference and meeting centers, and show rooms, as well as private spaces such as sitting rooms and gardens. Architectural innovation at its very best.
Book
Follies in America
Follies in America examines
historicized garden buildings, known as \"follies,\" from the
nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in
1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such
as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins-brought a range of
European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting
the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners
brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness.
Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in
America examines both buildings and their counterparts in
literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window
into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including
tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the
ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class
aspirations.
eBook