Fountain safari txt
- First edition
- 415 p. : ill. ; col. ; maps ; 31 cm. book
Include index.
1 Why 15 -- 2 Seeing 16 -- 3 Fountain Safari 20 -- THE OTHER CONNOISEURS 24 -- 4 Hadrian’s Villa 27 -- 5 Viterbo 32 -- 6 The Villa Lante 39 -- 7 The Villa d’Este 47 -- PAST MASTERS 62 -- 9 Plazza Navona 65 -- 10 Taormina Fountain 73 -- 11 Barcaccia 75 -- 12 Saint Peter’s Square Fountains 80 -- 13 Trevi Fountain 84 -- 14 Reggia di Caserta 90 -- 15 Villa Gamberaia 95 -- 16 The Querini Stampalia Foundation 99 -- PLACE OF PLACES 104 -- 18 The Alhambra and the Generalife 107 -- 19 The Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso 121 -- 20 Park Guell 126 -- 21 The Barcelona Pavilion 131 -- 22 The Mercury Fountain 134 -- 23 Madeira 136 -- 24 Dubrovnic Fountains 139 -- 25 Schloss Hellbrunn 153 -- 26 Schloss Linderhoff 153 -- 27 Peterhof Palace 159 -- 28 Prague Castle 160 -- 29 Tivoli Gardens 165 -- 30 Neptunbrunnen 171 -- TRAPPED GOODS 172 -- 31 The Fountain of the Innocents 174 -- 32 Place des Vosges 180 -- 33 Luxembourg Gardens 183 -- 34 Vaux le Vicomte 191 -- 35 Versailles 197 -- 36 Aix-En-Provence 207 -- 37 Parc des Buttes Chaumont 215 -- 38 The Stravinsky Fountain 219 -- 39 Fondation Louis Vuitton 220 -- EXPERIENCE IN THE SQUARE 222 -- 40 Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain 225 -- 41 Trafalgar Square Fountains 227 -- 42 Revolving Torsion 233 -- 43 Princess Diana Memorial Fountain 234 -- NOT EMPTY SPACE 236 -- 44 Bethesda Fountain 239 -- 45 Seagram Building 243 -- 46 Paley Park 245 -- 47 Chase Plaza Sunken Garden 247 -- 48 MIT Chapel 249 -- 49 Longwood Garden’s-Main Fountain Garden 251 -- NIGHT FOUNTAIN 254 -- 50 The National Gallery of Art 257 -- 51 The Park at CityCenter 259 -- 52 Clarence F. Buckingham Fountain 260 -- 53 Water Tower Place 262 -- 54 Crown Fountain 264 -- 55 Polk Bros Fountain 269 -- 56 Vizcaya 271 -- 57 San Antonio River Walik 276 -- 58 Fountain Place 279 -- PAST MASTER 282 -- 59 Lovejoy Plaza 285 -- 60 Ira Keller Fountain 290 -- 61 Jamison Square 296 -- 62 Vaillancourt Fountain 299 -- 63 Levi’s Plaza 301 -- 64 Hearst Castle 305 -- 65 Disneyland Water Features 307 -- 66 Salk Institute for Biological Studies 311 -- 67 The Getty Center 312 -- EXPERT GUIDE 314 -- 68 Casa Gilardi 317 -- 69 Fuente de los Amantes 319 -- 70 Cuandra San Cristobal 321 -- 71 Camino Real 323 -- FIRST FALAGE 324 -- 72 Oman Falaj 327 -- 73 Agra Fort 329 -- 74 Shalimar Bagh 332 -- 75 The Taj Mahal 335 -- 76 Dubai Fountain 339 -- PRIVACY RIVER 340 -- 77 Otani Hombyo 343 -- 78 Ryoan-ji 345 -- 79 Koinzan Saiho-ji 347 -- 80 Katsura Palace 349 -- THE POET 352 -- 81 Luzhi 354 -- 82 West Lake, Hangzhou 359 -- 83 Humble Administrator’s Garden 363 -- 84 Bank of China 368 -- 85 Rain Oculus 371 -- DOWN UNDER 372 -- 86 El Alamein War Memorial 375 -- 87 Coles Fountain 378 -- 88 New South Wales Parliament 380 -- 89 Tidal Cascade 383 -- SIMPLE REWARD 384 -- 90 In Absentia 386 -- 91 Predeceding Studies 388 -- 92 A Brief History of Western Fountains 394 -- 93 The Huxtable Assertion 396 -- 94 Fountain Collections 398 -- 95 In Praise of Engineering 399 -- 96 Placing 400 -- 97 Before and After 402 -- 98 Climate Change Influences 406 -- 99 In Closing 408 -- 100 The Text 410 -- 101 The Photographs 410 -- 102 The Drawings 411 -- 103 Index 412 -- Acknowledgments 414 -- About the Autor 415 --
A comprehensive, entertaining survey of fountains, sketching out their evolution over two millennia and across several cultures. Of interest to design professionals, landscape architects, urban designers, and students of the built environment.
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