Architecture Across Cultures
London, United Kingdom, 19th century Origins of the Modern Urban Landscape: The Salon Carl von Alexander Von Linné, 1707- Humboldt, 1769- 1778 painting 1859 by Alexander painting by Roslin, 1775. Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806 Enlightenment political & aesthetic philosophy Charmettes, Birthplace of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Nature and the Search for the Primitive— The “Noble Savage” Ermenonville, 1763, Marquis de Girardin Temple of Philosophy, left unfinished to symbolize the incompleteness of human knowledge. 'Here lies the man of Nature and of Truth' Parc Monceau, Paris, 1773, by Carmontelle Parc Monceau, Paris, 1773, by Carmontelle LONDON Covent Garden as designed by Inigo Jones London, 1630 http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/unique_city/2011_london_growth_ en.shtml Regent Street and Regent’s Park, London, John Nash, 1809-32 Regent Street and Regent’s Park, London, John Nash, 1809-32 Regent Street and Regent’s Park, London, John Nash, 1809-32 Regent Street and Regent’s Park, London, John Nash, 1809-32 Regent Street, London, John Nash, 1811-1820s Neoclassical Georgian Architecture Princes Park, Liverpool, England Joseph Paxton, 1842 Commissioned by Richard Vaughan Yates (1785-1856) J. C. Loudon, Observations on Landscape Gardening, 1804 Loudon's design for the ferm ornee at Great Tew in Oxfordshire, 1812 Derby Arboretum, plan and section by Chatsworth glasshouse, Derbyshire, J.C. Loudon, Derby, England, 1839 England, Joseph Paxton, 1836-40 Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead, United Kingdom, Joseph Paxton, 1843-47 "a model town” which was built "all in accordance with the advanced science, taste, and enterprising spirit that are supposed to distinguish the nineteenth century". F. L. Olmsted "five minutes of admiration, and a few more spent studying the manner in which art had been employed to obtain from nature so much beauty, and I was ready to admit that in democratic America there was nothing to be thought of as comparable with this People’s Garden".
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