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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". F.L. Olmsted, 1850 Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead, United Kingdom, Joseph Paxton, 1843-47 Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead, United Kingdom, Joseph Paxton, 1843-47 Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead, United Kingdom, Joseph Paxton, 1843-47 Carpet bedding… Industrial Age •New technologies •Health and Vigor •Art and Nature Victorian Gardens J. C. Loudon Villa on 3.5 acres, Suburban Garden by J.C. Loudon, 1838 Gardenesque: a style of planting design in accordance with his Principle of Recognition suggesting that exotic plants signified ART. Double detached villa, Suburban Garden by J.C. Loudon, 1838 French Revolution (c. 1789–1799) Storming of the Bastille, 1789, and then the Tuileries, 1792 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 Eugène Belgrand developed system for water and sewers Horticulturalist was Jean Pierre Barillet Park and Street furnishings by Gabriel Jean Antoine Davioud, for Alphand Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809 –1891) Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817 - 1891) Paris as a Modern City Eugène Belgrand Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand Gabriel Jean Antoine Davioud Jean Pierre Barillet Bois de Boulogne, Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand & Jean Pierre Barillet, 1852 – 1855, Chateau de Bagatelle, 1777, on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne Bois de Boulogne, Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand with Jean Pierre Barillet, under Haussmann 1852 – 1855, Bois de Boulogne, Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand with Jean Pierre Barillet, under Haussmann 1852 – 1855, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, 1860 under Haussmann & Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand Bois de Vincennes, Paris, 1860 under Haussmann & Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand with Jean Pierre Barillet, 1864 Parc des Buttes Chaumont, 1864, Alphand & Barillet Parc des Buttes Chaumont, 1864, Alphand & Barillet Parc des Buttes Chaumont, 1864, Alphand & Barillet • Theorie der Gartenkunst by Christina Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742-1792) Volks Garten- Tiergarten, Berlin Peter Joseph Lenne, 1818 Muskauer Park, by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau , 1815-1844 ‘painting with plants’.
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