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almafu_9959327116002883
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1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118508107
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1118508106
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9781118508121
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1118508122
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9781118508138
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1118508130
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1118508149
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9781118508145
Series Statement:
Historic building conservation series
Content:
This comprehensive guide on historic garden and landscape conservation will help landscape professionals familiarise themselves with what the conservation of historic gardens, garden structures and designed landscapes encompasses. The aim of the series is to introduce each aspect of conservation and to provide concise, basic and up-to-date knowledge within five volumes, sufficient for the professional to appreciate the subject better and to know where to seek further help. Gardens & Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation is an essential guide for eve.
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: History and Theory; 1: What is it about gardens that you want to conserve?1; 2: The National Trust approach to garden conservation; Why conserve gardens?; The National Trust and gardens; Historically significant gardens; A roll call of artistic genius; National Trust Acquisition criteria; Plants and their significance; Conservation approaches; Development of National Trust conservation policy and practice; Conservation -- management influences; Evidence; Restoration; Re-creation; Flower garden conservation.
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Access and conservationFinancial implications; Staffing levels; Continual development/Innovation; Conclusion; 3: The nature of gardens and their significance; Introduction; Defining gardens; Approach to conservation; 4: Some Olla Podrida from the diary of a garden historian1; Diary entry March 2011 -- Crom Castle; The house and immediate gardens; The site of the old house; The water and the eye-catchers; The walled garden; Diary entry September 2011 -- A visit to Castle Drogo on the edge of Dartmoor; Diary entry: February 2012 Stourhead -- a classical Elysium set in a picturesque landscape.
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Diary entry from March 2012 -- SissinghurstDiary entry November 2012, Nostell Priory, Yorkshire; Thoughts on the design and its possible intent; Diary entry March 2013 -- Attingham Park, Shropshire; Addendum -- The Walled Gardens and their surrounds; 5: On design and process; 6: Evolution of principles for the conservation of gardens and designed landscapes; Older approaches to conservation; Historicist; Modernist; Restoration by charter -- The desire for accuracy; The public purse; Restoration principles in the 1980s; Aids to accuracy: garden archaeology and conjectural detailing.
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Conservation thinking todayPhilosophical background; The benefit of experience; Acceptance of change; New work and adaptation; Restoration in the 2010s; Summary; 7: Conservation of garden buildings; Introduction; The desktop study; Stowe, Buckinghamshire; Temple of Concord and Victory; Temple of Friendship; The Chinese House; The New Inn; Croome Park; Ecological investigation; Dunstall Castle; Pirton Castle; Panorama; 8: 'Perished Perches': historic garden furniture; 9: The history and the future of public parks.
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10: The history and aesthetic development of the cemetery and related conservation issuesCemetery, burial ground, graveyard or churchyard?; The social and aesthetic context for the earliest English cemeteries; The sublime and commercial cemetery in early nineteenth-century England; The early commercial cemeteries of the Metropolis; The transition from private to public burial provision; Municipal or 'Burial Board' cemeteries; Twentieth-century changes in cemetery aesthetics; Conservation issues affecting cemeteries; Part II: Survey and Assessment; 11: Researching historic parks and gardens.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Gardens & landscapes in historic building conservation. Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014 ISBN 9781118508145
Language:
English
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