LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 



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The Roman conquerors took these thoughtful designers of 

 the best landscape art of the Greeks, together with their other 

 artists, to Rome, and as a result Roman estates and villas 

 reflect this fine Greek influence. The greater wealth avail- 

 able and the changed physical conditions brought forth from 

 the fertile brains of these designers new forms of landscape 

 art evidenced by the ruins of the great Roman and Pompeiian 

 estates and gardens that have come down to us. Here are 

 shown not only the ideas of Egypt and Greece modified to 



PLAN OF VILLA LANTI, ITALY 



meet new conditions, but careful consideration of the ques- 

 tions of distant view and vistas. It is clear that these men 

 planned to have informality at a distance from their mansions 

 and palaces with a more evident approach to formality as 

 one nears the very formal designed palaces and terraces. 

 There was a thorough appreciation of the need of conformity 

 to the same architectural style throughout in a word, unity. 

 This is again correct design and what we are seeking for 

 today. 



