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Katsura (what where when who)
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Imperial villa kyoto, constructed 1615, kabori enshu
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Katsura (features/details)
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Stroll garden unfolds as you walkwater always on the rightasymmetry NO AXISarch bridgecurtained tea house, meeting of stone + wood, simplicity and purity
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Divisions of japanese gardens
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Shin (formal)gyo (semiformal)so (informal)
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Japanese garden features / types
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Shakkei (borrowed scenery)hide and revealdry gardenstroll gardenikebana (flower arrangement)
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Chinese religious philosophies
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Confucianism: stratefied + collective society, hierarchy, scholars ---> emphatic axis arch.taoism: (%) aesthetic buddhism ---> asymmetrical balancebuddhism ---> meditation / contemplation
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Lushan Mountains
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China extraordinary spontaneous landscape - peaked mountains --> paintings --> buddhist retreat contemplative
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Chinese gardens (when/philosophies)
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Beginning 200 bc.-solitary contemplation-sociability-scholarship-reinterpreting great vision (essence) into small scale-multiplicity of views
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Chinese gardens elements
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-stones selected from wild landscape - holes, placed upright-plant material: honor + personality, native but carefully selected --> seasonal + steadiness (plum blossom, pine, bamboo, lotus, ginko, banana, magnolia, weeping willow)-framing (from pavillion) - divisions - multiplicity of views - effects of light + small details-immersion
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Han dynasty
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206bc-220ad…?
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Humble administrator's garden
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Zhuo zheng yuan - largest garden in suzhou (canal city)-hierarchically organized house, asymm gardens-WATER - NO large sheets -brook.stream-seasonalcolor, complex circuit, moongates, zigzag bridges (force you to see diff views and slow down)
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Netmaster's garden
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Suzhou-extraordinary lattice work (pavillions)-vibrantly painted-framing devices!-intricate pathways + rockwork
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Imperial gardens
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China 1600s-1700s beijing, forbidden city-axis of gardens (to fragrant hills)-yi hi yuan - summer palace - atmospheric-17 acres hierarchical strict temples - 17 arch bridge
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English renaissance gardens (name / elements)
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Tudor gardens:-knot gardens, pleached trees, mazes, geometric rigidly bilateral symmetrical, 4square gardens, lawnbowling
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Montacute House, Somerset, 1580-1601-influence of french gardens! formal elements derived from french gardens
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Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, 1608-1612-bilaterally symm house, mazes, knot gardens, raised walkways, subtly colored native flowers, topiary, -french influence.
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