Technology and the garden /
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture(35th :2011 :Washington, D.C.)
Lee, Michael G.,1962-editor.
Helphand, Kenneth I.,editor.
Dumbarton Oaks,host institution.
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXXV."
"Based on papers presented at the symposium "Technology and the Garden," organized with Diana Balmori and Mark Laird and held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 6-7, 2011"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Technology and the garden / Michael G. Lee and Kenneth I. Helphand -- Part I: Visualizing and shaping the landscape.  The engineer-poet and his garden-poem : Ronsard's Bocages / Tom Conley ; Optical instrumenta[liza]tion and modernity at Versailles : from measuring the earth to leveling in French seventeenth-century gardens / Georges Farhat -- Part II: Horticultural technologies.  Greenhouse technologies and horticulture : the 1st Duchess of Beaufort's Badminton florilegium (1703-5) and J. J. Dillenius's Hortus elthamensis (1732) / Mark Laird ; "Much better contrived and built then any other in England" : stoves and other structures for the cultivation of exotic plants at Hampton Court Palace, 1689-1702 / Jan Woudstra -- Part III: Landscape construction : hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure.  Garden hydraulics in pre-Sistine Rome : theory and practice / Katherine Rinne ; "L'anima del giardino" : water, gardens, and hydraulics in sixteenth-century Florence and Naples / Anatole Tchikine ; The practical side of paradise : garden-making in Ming Dynasty China / Alison Hardie ; Infrastructure as landscape embellishment : Peter Joseph Lenne in Potsdam and Berlin / Michael G. Lee -- Part IV: Emerging technologies and landscape experience.  Gardens of the moon : the modern cine-nocturne / Scott M. MacDonald ; Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) and Heraldic crests for invasive species (photo essay) / Marina Zurkow ; Green-roofs and the idea of the wild thing : the economics of manipulating nature / Claudia Dias and Ross von Burg ; The robot in the garden / Nikolaus Correll.
Garden ornaments and furniture
Landscape construction
Landscape architecture