CHAPTER IV 



STYLES OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



Origin and names of historic styles — Categories of styles — Examples of 

 HISTORIC styles OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN — The Moorlsh Style in Spain — The 

 Moghul style in India — The styles of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque 

 villas — The style of Le Notre — The Romantic landscape style — The English 

 formal style of the Tudors — The English cottage style — The New England 

 colonial style — The modern German formal style — The Japanese styles — 

 The modern American landscape style — Study of styles — Choice of style. 



Origin and In Studying existing works of landscape architecture we find that 



Names of ^ consider in groups works which produce a similar effect on the 



Historic ■' ° . ^ . , ,..,..,. . . 



Styles beholder on account of a fundamental similarity in their organization ; 



and we have seen that the similarity of organization comes in the case 

 of each group from a similarity of conditions under which the examples 

 in the group were brought forth, — conditions, namely, of their physical 

 environment and material, of the people who made them or for whom 

 they were made, and of the purposes for which they were produced. 

 Although sometimes one of these factors, sometimes another, appears 

 as most strikingly characteristic in the resultant groups, we find that 

 the various historic styles of landscape design which have been differen- 

 tiated have taken their names usually from the peoples which originated 

 them and the countries in which they arose, occasionally from an in- 

 dividual whose name was associated with certain definite pieces of 

 work which were the first examples of the style, and, rarely, from the 

 total esthetic effect produced by the style. Naturally enough, most of 

 our names of historic styles designate at once both the people and the 

 country associated with their origin ; for example, we speak loosely 

 of an Italian style of landscape design. But since the ideals and customs 

 of a people change with time, and since in different parts even of one 

 country the natural conditions may be very different, if we intend to 



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