INDEX 



393 



283-84; sub-surface utilities, 284; street 

 widths, 284-85 ; roadways and planting 

 strips, 285 ; sidewalks, 285-86; 



lots, 286-89: sizes, 286; width and 

 depth, 286-87; shape, 287-88; orientation, 

 288-89; 



reserved areas, 289-91 ; restrictions, 291- 

 93 ; districting, 293-94 > professional charges 

 of landscape architect, 328; refs., 379 



Landscape, " free," 68 ; man's need of, 75 



Landscape appreciation, development, 12; 

 quotation from Shaler, 12-13 > '■'/-'■■> 366-67 



Landscape architect, duty in preservation of 

 characteristic scenery, 74; feeling for main 

 architectural effect, 193-94; as interpreting 

 the client's desires in design of estate, 249; 

 assistance to client in choice of site for 

 estate, 273 ; professional advice in land 

 subdivision, 280; opportunity in national 

 planning, 323; professional standing, defi- 

 nition, 326; relations with client and 

 contractor, 332-33 ; cooperation with other 

 practitioners, 333-34, in city planning, 334. 

 See also Landscape architecture 



Landscape architect's office, 328-29; organiza- 

 tion and equipment, 334-37; clerical force, 

 334-35; technical office and field force, 

 335-36; office reference material, 336-37 



Landscape architecture, definition, i ; prov- 

 ince, 1-2; development as a separate pro- 

 fession, 2-3 ; requirements for profession, 

 3-4; preparation for profession, 4-5; op- 

 portunities and rewards of profession, 5 ; 

 types of designs, 232 ; 



professional practice in America, 325- 

 37; refs., 381; professional degrees, 325; 

 professional conduct, 325-26; professional 

 charges, 326-28; professional reputation, 

 328-29; professional advertising and pub- 

 licity, 329-31 ; professional announcements, 

 331; public exhibitions, 331 ; competitions, 



332; 



classification, 337; selected list of refer- 

 ences on, 361-81 

 Landscape Architecture, quarterly, rej., 362 

 Landscape character, defined, 22 ; interpre- 

 tation of, 31; illusions of, in composition, 

 121 ; relation of plant character to, 165-66; 

 buildings subordinate to, 189-90; park 

 buildings subordinate to, 316; relation to 



making of roads and paths in the land- 

 scape park, 309 



Landscape characters, 62-75 ; emotional ef- 

 fect increased by designers of Romantic 

 landscape style, 46; development in mod- 

 ern American landscape style, 58-59; 

 physical origin, 62-63 ; as parallel to styles, 

 63-64 ; names, 64-65 ; 



examples, 64-70: prairie, 64-65 ; barren 

 or tundra, 65-66; sand dunes, 66; Sequoia 

 grove, 66-67 > Sierra mountain meadow, 

 67-68; bushy pasture, 68-69; English 

 pastoral landscape, 69-70; 



design in, 70-72 ; in relation to economic 

 use and maintenance, 72-74; effects in, 

 84-85 ; roadside planting developed to 

 accord with, 223 ; character units in design 

 of the estate, 268-69; considered in choice 

 of site for estate, 273 ; 



character units available for the large 

 landscape park, 299-300; park use and, 

 301; best fitted to park uses, 301-5; 

 pastoral landscape, 301-2 ; wooded land- 

 scape, 302-3 ; rocks and ledges, 303 ; 

 brooks and ponds, 303-4; character units 

 separated by park roads, 311 



Landscape composition, 88-129; compared 

 with composition in painting, 88-89; 

 within the visual angle, 92 ; larger unity, 



92-93; 



characteristics of objects in, 98-129: 

 shape, 98-101 ; size, scale, and distance, 

 101-3 ; texture, 103-4; color, 104-11; 

 light and shade, 111-13; atmosphere and 

 atmospheric perspective, 113-16; illusions 

 in, 116-22; as exemplified in the garden, 

 239-46; 



landscape compositions, 122-29; objects 

 in, according to their design value, 128-29; 

 temporary elements, 129; hill and moun- 

 tain forms in, 132-33 ; differentiation of 

 design units by contrast of foliage color, 

 160; in the landscape park, 305; 

 refs., 368 

 Landscape construction, see Construction 

 Landscape design, theory, 6-23, refs., 366-67; 

 defined, 6; esthetic and economic aspects, 

 6-7 ; psychological basis of esthetic theory, 

 7-16; esthetic analysis in, 16; teaching of, 

 26; criticism in, 26-27; self-criticism in, 



