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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"garden design"”.
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Gardens of the Restoration: a new approach to establishing the Englishness of gardens in England 1660-1680
… an English character can be identified in garden designin the twenty years after the Restoration in England, 1660-1680. I argue that the influence of France and the Netherlands on English garden design before 1680 is not as dominant as previously thought1and that landowners returning from …
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A Bunker Garden: Mindfulness-Based Landscape Design to Restore Physicians from Burnout
Landscape architects design healing gardens at healthcare facilities to support patients, visitors, caregivers, and staff. Many acknowledge that medical staff regularly visit healing gardens to escape work-related stress (Marcus and Sachs, 2014). Rarely, however, are healing gardens on medical …
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Thawed music? : a humanistic study of meaning in Western gardens : a dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
… addresses the question of meanings in gardens from a humanist point of view. It is particularly concerned with examining the commonly held notion that a garden is a work of art. It is limited in scope to western garden styles, and it is limited in scope also in that it discusses gardens …
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An Integrative Approach to Therapeutic Outdoor Spaces in Dementia-Care Units
… disease and related dementias (ADRD) and the design of therapeutic outdoor spaces for these persons. With the rapid growth of the aging population, appropriate outdoor spaces will become essential to improved quality of life for older adults with ADRD. This study explores nonpharmacological …
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Negotiations with the landscape : a winery in California
This thesis concerns the design of a winery in the hills of northern California. The winer program was specifically chosen to ensure and illuminate the close partnership between landscape and building. While the industrial nature of the winery might appear antithetical to landscape setting. the …
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Culture and commerce in China's Special Economic Zone : an experiment in design and development
… for the local residents as well as tourists. The design exploration focuses on Chinese garden design as a precedent and form generator for modem art exhibition spaces. Since art collections have traditionally been displayed in private residences, art gallery as a public building is an emerging …
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Experience-Oriented Ecological Design: A Methodological Framework to Improve Human Experience in Urban Public Space Ecological Design
… that contemporary urban public space ecological designs. Are often deficient in this regard. In order to develop a design methodology that addresses both ecological function and sensory experience, the author examine both contemporary western ecological design and classical Chinese garden design. …
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Effects of annual thermal regime on growth trajectories of native age-0 brook trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis)
… different annual thermal regimes. Using a common garden design, we then evaluated the effect of variable incubation temperatures on egg size, developmental phenology, yolk sac allocation, hatch timing, and size at hatch under laboratory conditions. The results of the current study provide evidence …
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Landscapes For Celebration; An Investigation and Design of Wedding Gardens
This thesis explores the design of landscapes for celebration. These celebrations include all types of events or rituals that mark special times in people's lives. The focus of this work is landscapes for weddings. The goal is to illuminate the importance of these spaces for celebration as well as …
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WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD [1794-1881] ARTIST AND LANDSCAPE GARDENER
… to past opinions William Andrews Nesfield's garden layouts were not solely designed to provide appropriate accompaniments to the Elizabethan and Jacobean revival architecture of his brother-in-law Anthony Salvin (1799-1881). Nor were they conceived chiefly to provide his wealthy patrons with …
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Harmonious Screen Interface Design Principles from Chinese Calligraphy
… It is reflected in many forms, e.g. painting and garden design. However, calligraphy gives a straight forward insight into harmony in two dimensions. The main hypothesis was that the principles for building a harmonious calligraphic character could be converted from holistic to deductive and …
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Layered Visions and the Teleorama: Constructing Sites of Ruination through a Contemporary Drawing Practice
… evidenced in contemporaneous painting and garden design. Through constructing maquettes informed by several formal iterations of the Teleorama, and enlarging these to become installations, my practice explores the extent to which such works can convey the fragility and ephemerality observed …
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Char Bagh Avenue, Isfahan: genesis and demise. Pre-Islamic and Islamic garden influences in the Safavid creation and history of its subsequent degeneration
… of the Chahar Bagh Avenue and its surrounding gardens. Inextricably attached to the creation of this great public space was the theme of the paradisiacal garden – an enclosure complete with landscaping and planting – tended and watered, which excluded the wilderness. The Garden ultimately …
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Cecil Pinsent: architecture and landscape design
… (1884-1963), an English architect and landscape designer who lived and practised almost exclusively in Italy from 1907 to circa 1935. During this time he was involved in the restoration and renovation of many of the most historically sensitive villas and landscapes in Tuscany, and responsible for …
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Chinese Scholar Garden Detail with Grace of Rainwater
… over the world. Replicating the Master of Nets Garden, added in UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997, it was constructed in China, and shipped and assembled here. This first exported garden of the Peony Court is the only part of the garden suitable for the second floor site's limited load …
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Evaluation of flow models and pollutant retention isotherms for their application to rain garden bioretention
… could predict pollution retention in a rain garden and secondly to use the model and additional experiments to examine various aspects of rain garden design with respect to pollutant retention. Initially, the behaviour of all contaminants in urban runoff was examined including their retention …
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Georg Potente (1876-1945) : die Entwicklung vom Gartengestalter zum Gartendenkmalpfleger zwischen 1902 und 1938 in Potsdam-Sanssouci
In der Person von Georg Potente, der von 1902 bis 1938 in Potsdam-Sanssouci tätig war, spiegelt sich eine Entwicklung vom königlichen Ober- und Hofgärtner zum staatlichen Gartendirektor, einem schöpferisch tätigen Gartendenkmalpfleger wider. Sein Schaffen in historischen Gärten ist charakterisiert …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… throughout the United States are creating gardens with a variety of visions and results. Ten such gardens were present in Champaign and Urbana, IL in 2010. This phenomenon of faith-based gardening is designated as stewardship gardening within this thesis. While these gardens are recently …
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Designing for education at the University of Illinois Arboretum
… on educational programming and includes the design of a Discovery Center - a facility that serves as the locus for educational experience - at the core of the arboretum. The development of both the visitation framework and the Discovery Center is the result of a progression that begins with …