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“Whoever knows how to design a park well will have no difficulty in tracing the plan for the building of a city according to its given area and situation.” Observations sur l’Architecture 1765 Abbé Laugier

Q: So, why study gardens? A: They’re the great lab of urban thought. There’s no better place to learn architecture than from garden design. Gardens are architecture. Architecture is the basis of the city.

Gardens have had a strange fate. Their history has almost always anticipated the history of cities. “The Pleasure of Architecture” Bernard Tschumi, 1978

topos- refers to the natural landscape, (literally; common place) locus- refers to a geometrical determination We’ll refer to them as: Physical and Abstract systems of operations Context and Overlay (underlying and superimposed layers) Natural and Geometric

Let’s look at these three: 1) Italian Villas and their Gardens (15th c. & 16th c.) 2) French Classical Palaces and their Gardens (17th c.) 3) English Picturesque Houses and their Gardens (18th c.) In terms of LOCUS & TOPOS

plan axonometric section axonometric analysis N 0 12 24 36 48 60m

Construct a Taxonomic Catalog Assess your assigned garden according to this general taxonomic system: M1 Masses masses S1 Horizontal Surface surfaces of and on the earth S2 Vertical Surfaces surfaces standing on the earth E1 Vertical Elements objects standing on the earth E2 Path Elements vectors on the earth M2 Mass-Less Conditions pointless points Develop specific subsets (i.e. M1.a-d and S1.a-e) in the taxonomy based on the particulars of your garden. Produce this full and specific taxonomy with material quantities as a .doc format catalog. The catalog can be illustrated. The file name should be, “XXX_Garden_Catalog01.doc”