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Architecture
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05/03/2012

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Plant Collecting 
Definition
Collection of data and comparison of species
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Classification Systems 
Definition
classes, orders, genera and species
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Arrangements of plants within the gardens 
Definition
 by type, by locale, by ecotome, for purposes of study and comparison, education
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Linneaus
Definition
Carl von Linné (Swedish botanist).  Published Systema Naturae (1735)
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Hortus academicus
Definition

(as at Leyden – a garden to study plants)

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Physic Garden 
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Ancient Greece and Rome, type of herb garden with medicinal plants

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Arboretum
Definition
houses trees and woody shrubs
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Alpine Garden 
Definition
address collections that reflect particular ecotomes
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Glasshouse Also known as a green house. One in Kew botanic gardens
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Kew Botanic Gardens 
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Royal Botanical gardens, England. Contains glasshouse.
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Botanic garden of Padua (Padova) 1545, oldest botanical garden
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Botanic garden of Leyden
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1587, physic garden
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Arnold Arboretum Boston  (recognize the plan) – Founded by Olmsted and Sargent 1872
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Botanic Garden Bordeaux (1999-2000) by Jourda Architects and Kathryn Gustafson, Botanical garden and greenhouses. Client: town of Bordeaux with Catherine Mosbach Paysagistes
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Charles Sprague Sargent 
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(American horticulturist, plant explorer.  Boston – Arnold Arboretum)
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Notion of lost in translation

 

Definition
the tendency of ideas to lose inherent or original meaning as they find formal and stylistic credence in other cultures, and then the corollary meaning newly assigned to the element or style or approach.
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artificial rockery
Definition

source often cited as from the Yellow Mountains, or simulating this setting

borrowed scenery (visual airway)

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Emperor Qian Long
Definition

the 17th century Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Clarity)

Beijing, China ruled from 1735-1795

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Jesuit missionaries
Definition

(est’d 1533 in Italy) notably Guiseppe Castiglione

(Milanese, 1688-1766)

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Guiseppe Castiglione
Definition
 He traveled to China and was welcomed into the court of Emperor Qian Long .  Castiglione’s Chinese name = Lang Shih-ning
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 William Chambers
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(1723-1796) England – Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils (1757); A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772)
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Sans Souci, Potsdam
Definition
(near Berlin) Germany (begun 1715 for Friedrich 1st ); additions and various renovations  1826‑1860; 1902‑1908.  
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Tea Pavilion
Definition

Germany designed by Johann Gottfried Büring (1754-56)

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Peter Josef Lenné
Definition
(1789-1866) the designer who laid out the grounds of Sans Souci.
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Drottningholm 
Definition
near Stockholm, Sweden (1680‑1700) Designed by Tessin the Younger for Dowager Queen Hedvig Eleanora. Restorations begun 1961. Drawings (watercolours) by F. M. Piper
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 Thomas Jefferson
Definition

Monticello and the University of Virginia (use of chinoiserie and his

reference to pattern books)

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 Beatrix Farrand
Definition
Abby Aldrich Rockefellor Garden, Seal Harbor, ME (ca, 1926)
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Sculpture Garden 
Definition

outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture

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Modular
Definition

                                                                                                                             

Modular - as in a building unit or fabrication element such as pavers – see works by Rose

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Zen Buddhism 
Definition
Zen is a school of buddhism
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Rose Residence 
Definition
Ridgewood, NJ – begun 1954 for James Rose, his sister and his mother
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UNESCO “Garden of Peace”  Paris, France by Isamu Noguchi (1958) for the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization [UNESCO
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