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LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



Repetition 



Harmony^ 

 Monotony, 

 and Variety 



Sequence 



Sequence of 

 Continuation 

 or Repetition 



from near one corner may be perceived as symmetrical although the 

 pictorial view of it is not. 



Repetition is the most fundamental of the forms of order, and the 

 one which occurs most frequently. To have harmony there must be 

 repetition ; there may be also sequence or balance. Repetition in a 

 composition may be the repetition of a number of objects all precisely 

 alike except in position ; or the repetition may be a repetition of cer- 

 tain characteristics or relations only of the objects, of their shape and 

 size, their color, their attitude, or the interval which separates them. 

 (See the tree trunks in Plate 24 and the roofs in Plate 36.) The repeti- 

 tion may be perceived when only one characteristic is repeated. A very 

 varied landscape may be unified by being predominantly green. The 

 repetition of a tone through a rendered drawing, the repetition of 

 boundary lines of the same width around a plan, the repetition of bay 

 trees of the same size and shape to mark the corners of a formal pool, 

 the repetition of letters at the same slant in the title of a drawing, 

 and the repetition of the same interval between these, all make for 

 harmony and thus for order in design. 



Complete repetition gives complete harmony. Such harmony will 

 often be monotony, but it is none the less harmony. Its opposite, 

 variety, is merely relief from monotony. Variety is not a principle of 

 organization, but the pleasure of its perception is a principle of the or- 

 ganization of the human mind. 



Sequence depends on the progressive change of at least one char- 

 acteristic in a series of objects. The other characteristics may or may 

 not be all constant, but enough of them must remain constant to make 

 the change on which the sequence rests perceptible. A succession of 

 objects might change sequentially in shape, or size, or color; but if 

 they changed in all these characteristics at once, they might become 

 so rapidly different as not to appear sequential at all. 



The simplest form of sequence is that of continuation or repetition. 

 Such sequences, essentially linear, have the very greatest value in con- 

 necting various parts of a design. (See the roads in Plates 15 and 31.) 



"The idea of Sequence is of movement and the satisfaction and pleasure we 

 get from any Sequence lies in its movement, not in divergences and other 

 obstacles to progress. Other things being equal, the movements which are 



