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Summary
Summary
Designed for both professional and general readers, this book examines the elements of garden design in terms of its ability to influence microclimatic effects. Elements such as fountains and orientation to the sun are not only aesthetically pleasing, but used in accordance with passive design principles have a dramatic impact on cooling and heating. The book spans the Mediterranean for examples, with some excursions as far east as Persia. For the most part, however, the book looks at the gardens of southern Spain and those of Renaissance and Baroque Italy, drawing lessons from these gardens that can be equally applied to garden design and landscape intelligence today.
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It would be unfortunate if the title of this book restricted its audience to readers interested in garden design, since its thesis is that historic gardens offer contemporary designers--architects and engineers as much as landscape architects--useful prototypes for achieving substantial modification of climate without dependence on resource-consumptive technologies. Sullivan, a landscape architect (Univ. of California at Berkeley), began his study of simpler, passive strategies to ameliorate harsh environmental conditions while a Rome Prize Fellow of the American Academy; most of his examples are drawn from classical and Renaissance Mediterranean cultures and the Islamic traditions of Moorish Spain, Persia, and India. Though the prose is occasionally pedantic, the organization of the contents under the four ancient cosmological elements of earth, air, fire, and water frees Sullivan to explore the symbolic and metaphysical attributes with which these historic landscapes were imbued. Under the category of earth, for example, grottoes functioning as cool retreats were, just as importantly, rich in psychological and mythic associations. Sullivan's drawings and proposals for four imagined sites illustrating how practical application of such principles and models might be achieved are similarly poetic and persuasive. All levels. C. M. Howett emerita, University of Georgia
Table of Contents
| Foreword |
| Introduction |
| Acknowledgments |
| Book I Earth |
| Postulate I Earth Seats |
| Postulate II Grottoes |
| Postulate III Subterranean Rooms |
| Postulate IV Cyrptoportici |
| Postulate V Boscoes |
| Postulate VI Pineta Garden Prototype |
| I The Garden of Bacchus |
| Book II Fire |
| Postulate I Hot Seats |
| Postulate II Warm Walks |
| Postulate III Sunlit Terraces |
| Postulate IV Warm Loggias |
| Postulate V Courtyards |
| Postulate VI Giardini Segreti (Secret Gardens) |
| Postulate VII Liminaias (Warm Rooms) Garden |
| Prototype II The Garden of the Phoenix |
| Notes |
| Book III Air |
| Postulate I Cool Seats |
| Postulate II Cool Walks |
| Postulate III Shaddy Tunnels and Pruned Walks |
| Postulate IV Arbors and Pergolas |
| Postulate V Garden Pavilions and Summerhouses |
| Postulate VI Interior Porches and Cool Rooms Garden |
| Prototype III The Garden of Juno |
| Book IV Water |
| Postulate I Water Catchment Devices and Irrigation Methods |
| Postulate II Placid Water Devices |
| Postulate III Active Water Devices |
| Postulate IV Aerated Water Devices |
| Postulate V Wet Walks |
| Postulate VI Water jokes The Garden of Neptune |
| Notes |
| Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
