The discovery of the landscape -- Conquering space -- The 'escape' from the architectronic system -- Historical and experimental research -- Typology and invention -- A "corso di disegno."
Topos and locus -- The villa urbana and the villa rustica -- The formal layering of the landscape.
Aspects of landscape architectronic form -- The basic form -- The spatial design -- The visual structure -- The programme form.
Arcadia as the urban ideal -- The transformation of the Hortus Conclusus -- The hidden geometry within nature -- Viewpoint, perspective and horizon -- The concept of rational stage management.
History -- Site -- Plan -- Geometry -- Integrazione scenica -- The Arcadian idyll -- Observatory and labyrinth.
Florence as a rational urban landscape -- The balcony garden.
Pliny's landscape theatre -- The Stanze garden.
The Roman villeggiatura -- Rome as a landscape theatre -- The terrace garden.
Movement and illusion -- The theatre garden.
Villeggiatura in the Roman Campagna -- Bosco, barco, barchetto -- The paradise garden.
Frascati as decor -- The façade garden.
The Veneto villeggiatura -- The Palladian country house -- Agriculture and Arcadia -- The empty garden.
Theatre and belvedere -- The disappearing garden.
Ch. II The magics of the formal -- The 17th-century Frnech residence.
The abstract concept of nature -- The magic of anamorphosis -- Trompe-l'œil -- Le jardin de plaisir -- The châteauz on the Loire and the Seine -- Richelieu : the ideal town -- The articical landscape of Paris -- The concept of formal stage management.
Menuet-trio-menuet : the ceremonial inauguration -- The present layout -- Site -- Interaction with the geomorphology -- The geometry of the plan -- The scenography of the axis -- The incorporation and manipulation of the horizon -- The visual control of infinity -- The illusion of perfect oder -- A synthetic Arcadia -- The ultimate transformation.
The main axis and the Grand Canal -- The transverse axes -- A vista of water, air and light -- The city as a reflecting image -- The patte d'oie as urban panorama -- The Grand Ensemble.
The formal origins of the Paris urban landscape -- A telescope to the open landscape of the Seine -- The Place de Concorde and the obscuring of the viewpoint -- The Arc de Triomphe and the materialization of the vanishing point -- The Champ-Élysées and the dismantling of the Arcadian image -- La Défense and the loss of balance -- La Grande Arche and the step over the horizon.
Ch. III The geometry of the picturesque -- the 18th century English landscape garden.
The individualization of time and space -- The dynamics of the Gregorian landscape -- The modernization of country life -- The picturesque tradition.
History -- Geomorphology and topography -- Stowe Ridings -- The formal system -- The topographic design matirx -- The landscape theatre -- Home Park -- The development of the layout -- Elysian Fields -- Hawkwell Field -- Grecian Valley -- Panoramic composition -- The scenography of Grand Avenue and Oxford Avenue -- Overview -- The picturesque moment.
History -- Topography and soil composition -- The house -- The woodland gardens -- Plan and landscape morphology -- The emergence of the landscape garden.
History -- Morphology and topography -- The landscape of Vanbrugh -- The landscape of Wise -- The landscape of Brown -- The dialectics and visual synthesis of the architectronic landscape.
History -- Morphology and typology -- Bridgeman's design -- Kent's design -- The hidden geometry of the panorama.
History -- Geology and topography -- Stourhead Park around 1722 -- The Great Oar Pasture -- The valley garden -- The Stourhead landscape -- The Arcadian initiation.
History -- Morphology and topography -- The landscape of Brown, 1772-1781 -- The additons by Repton, 1800 -- The natural picture plane.
History -- Hawkstone Hall, 1724-1783 -- The landscape garden, 1783-1809 -- The scenic walk -- See and shiver.
History -- Morphology and geography -- The Renaissance garden of 1690 -- The landscape garden of 1756 -- The Victorian garden, 1826-1850 -- The apotheosis of 300 years of garden design.
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