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What is the Piazza del Campo?
What is a Qanat?
Louis XIV believed he was this gods representation on earth.
Who is Apollo?
Throughout the course, these have been listed as ways to move water from one place to another.
What is a Qanat? What are the Roman Aqueducts? What are the fountains of Gamberia? etc...
"The Unexpected" is one of 7 ways attributes when describing this type of landscape.
What is the Picturesque?
The Court of the Lions and the Court of the Myrtles can be found within this structure.
What is Alhambra?
The recognition and expression of the spirit of a particular place – its essential character.
The Spirit of a place.
What is genius loci?
This designer worked on the plans for Rousham located in Oxfordshire, England in 1738.
Who is William Kent?
What are Ships and Sheep.
When Hatshepsut designed her own tomb, this was a key structuring element/formal organizational system that was the basis of the design.
What is the Axis?
This villa was designed for Gambara.
What is the Villa Lante?
The principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden"
What is borrowed scenery?
This person described their villas in great detail, but people to this day cannot agree on what they looked like. This is an example of the difference between explaining and showing.
Who is Pliny?
As time as moved on, designers have had to design for the changing future. This was a location that was at the forefront of motor safety.
What is Radburn?
This site was designed around the idea of water and the slaves that ran the grounds.
What is Middleton Place?
Particularly discovered in Pompeii, this area allowed for large gatherings within the city.
What is a forum?
This person was a founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture and designed Dumbarton Oaks.
Who is Beatrix Farrand?
The creation of the urban United States was contributed by these designers and in these areas.
Who are Thomas Jefferson (the grid system) and Frank Olmstead (Riverside), Philly, and Savanna?
This garden had so many fountains that servants needed to be placed to turn them on and off as the patron walked the grounds with his guests.
What is Versailles?
This site is a prime example of the use of the Golden Ratio based on proportions. It is located in American and was designed by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the University of Virginia?
This is a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water.
What is pleasance (plaisance)?
A landscape architect that published the book Design with Nature during the environmental movement in the United States that has shaped the way we design today.
Who is Ian McHarg?
This is an example of designers have taken pieces of works from other places and incorporated it into their own.
What is chinoiserie?
Survey is one example of the 5 steps of this.
What is Archeological Fieldwork.