LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Evolution of landscape architecture in England

Garden styles at a glance• Roman Britain : formal, low hedges• Medieval : small enclosed with turf seats and mounds• Tudor : knot gardens enclosed in hedges or walls• Stuart : formal Italianate and French styles• Georgian : informal landscaped, open parkland• Victorian : bedding plants, colourful, public gardens• 20th century : mixed styles, herbaceous borders

Stuart

Roman Britain

Medieval

TudorGeorgian Victorian

Elements of English Architecture

Wattle edging and Panels

Ruins

Bee Skeps

Natural stone

Recreation of Classic buildings

Elements of English Architecture

Lake Rolling lawns

Bridges

Garden of Rousham house

• In 18th century, the artist and designer William kent began to compose gardens in the form of landscape paintings.• He is also recognised as the father English landscape garden.• Rousham is the purest example of an Augustan landscape

garden. • The house is situated on a terrace above the River Cherwell, with

lawns sloping down to the river.• It captures Britain’s renewed confidence as the nation looked

beyond its borders to conquer, plunder, or ply trade.

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