• Early Landscape Design
• Italian Renaissance
• French Renaissance
• Eastern Landscape Design
• English Landscape Movement
• Frederick Law Olmstead and Parks Movement
• Early Housing Design
• Early Colonial Town Planning

Italian Renaissance
 
 

Siena, Italy

Aerial view

Plan: (key: 1. Campo  2. Duomo  3. Mercato)

Street scene: view near Campo

Piazza del Campo: aerial view

Piazza del Campo: view from entry

Piazza del Campo: view towards Palazzo side

Rome, Italy

Campidoglio: drawing

Campidoglio: general view

Campidoglio: general view

Campidoglio: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Palazzo de Senatore

Fiesole, Italy

Villa Medici: Plan

Villa Medici: Section

Villa Medici: General view from south east

Villa Medici: Arrival terrace view from edge to lowest garden

Villa Medici: General view

Tivoli, Italy

Villa D'Este: aerial perspective

Villa D'Este: view down main axis of garden

Villa D'Este: Garden: general view

Villa D'Este: Garden: general view

Villa D'Este: Garden fishpond

Villa D'Este: Garden view from villa

Villa D'Este: General view

Villa D'Este: Garden stairs

Villa D'Este: Garden alley of the hundred fountains

Villa D'Este: Garden alley of the hundred fountains

Villa D'Este: Garden alley of the hundred fountains

Villa D'Este: Garden fountain of the dragon

Villa D'Este: Garden fountain of the dragon

Villa D'Este: Garden fountain of the dragon

Villa D'Este: Fountain of Tivoli

Villa D'Este: Fountain of Tivoli

Villa D'Este: Fountain of Tivoli

Villa D'Este: Fountain of Tivoli

Villa D'Este: Garden water organ

Villa D'Este: Garden water organ

Villa D'Este: Garden view toward water organ

Villa D'Este: Garden water organ

Bagnaia, Italy

Villa Lante: Diagram: building and terraces

Villa Lante: Diagram: plantings

Villa Lante: Diagram: water features

Villa Lante: Garden: low terrace, general view

Villa Lante: Garden: low terrace, general view

Villa Lante: Water feature: fountain detail

Villa Lante: General view

Villa Lante: General view

Villa Lante: View from gardens

Villa Lante: Garden

Villa Lante: Garden

Villa Lante: Garden

Villa Lante: Garden: detail: stairs

Villa Lante: View of colonnade

Villa Lante: Scorpion pool: general view

Villa Lante: Scorpion pool: detail: segment

Villa Lante: Scorpion pool: general view

Villa Lante: Garden wine cooler: general view

Villa Lante: River God pool: ext.: detail: River god and stair

Villa Lante: River God pool: ext.: River god and basin

Villa Lante: River God pool: ext. det.: River god and stair

Lago Maggiore, Italy

Isola Bella: Plan

Isola Bella: General view

Isola Bella: View of steps

Isola Bella: General view

Isola Bella: General view

Isola Bella: General view

French Renaissance
 
 

Vaux-la-Vicomte, France

Environmental studies: land from Melon country

Chateau: Aerial view

Chateau: Aerial view (L. Le Vau, 1657-61)

Aerial view of chateau and main garden

Gardens: View from inside chateau

Gardens: View to chateau

Chateau site plan (L. Le Vau, 1657-61)

Chateau: General view: Garden facade (Le Vau, 1657-61)

Chateau: Garden: General view from Chateau

Chateau: Garden view across circular pool above Grotto along main axis

Chateau: Distant view (Le Vau, 1657-61)

Chateau: View from garden parterre

Gardens: Statues and ornament

Chateau: Gardens View from Oval salon

Chateau: Garden view along main axis from grotto to Chateau

Gardens' woodland path

Gardens inside bosquet

Chateau: Garden: View of first cross-axis) (LeNotre 1656-61)

Chateau entrance

Chateau: Distant view of front

Chateau view from garden

Versailles, France

Chateau: Plan of chateau and gardens in 1714

Chateau: Plans

Chateau: Garden: General view of main axis across Basin of Latona (LeNotre 1662-71)

Chateau: aerial south parterre

Chateau: Gardens: South parterre (Mansart 1687)

Chateau: Gardens: South parterre

Chateau: Garden: Grand Canal

Chateau: Garden: Basin of Apollo

Chateau: Garden: Basin of Apollo (LeNotre, 1662-71)

Chateau: Gardens: Water feature, Basin of Apollo

Chateau: Gardens: Orangerie

Chateau: Gardens: Orangerie

Chateau: Gardens

Chateau: Garden: General view (LeNotre, 1662-71)

Chateau: Gardens: View down axis

Chateau: Garden: General

Chateau: Gardens: Statuary- directed views

Chateau: Gardens

Chateau: Gardens: Water features: Basin of Latona and Grand Canal

Chateau: Gardens: Basin of Latona

Chateau: Gardens: Water Features: Basin of Latona

Chateau: Gardens: Grand Canal

Eastern Landscape Design

Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
 
 

Rock garden plan

Rock garden: General view

TARGET="image"Rock garden: View of monk raking patterns

TARGET="image"Rock garden: Children looking at "dry landscape"

Rock garden: General view

Rock garden: General view

Rock garden: View of rock

Katsura Palace, Kyoto, Japan
 
 

Aerial view

Drawing: Aerial view

Drawing: Plantings

Drawing: Buildings and Paths

Drawing: Water and Land

Stone Beach & Shokintei Teahouse in Distance

Stone Beach View from Shokintei Teahouse

View of Central Island

Aerial view with legend

Stone Beach & Shokintei Teahouse on left

View with Orin-do Temple in distance

View of Naka-no-shima with moon view platform on left

Stepping stones and moss

Paving

Fence

Old Shoin Garden Gate

Old Shoin Garden Gate

English Landscape Movement

Hampton Court, British Isles
 

Palace: Aerial View

Palace: Exterior: Wren Facade (Sir Christopher Wren, 1689-94)

Palace: Exterior: Wren Facade (Sir Christopher Wren, 1689-94)

Palace: Exterior: Wren Facade (Sir Christopher Wren, 1689-94)

Palace: Gardens: Formal Gardens: View from West Facade

Palace: Gardens: The Maze, aerial view

Palace: Gardens: The Maze

Palace: Gardens: Privy Gardens

Palace: Gardens: Henry VII's Pond Garden

Blenheim Palace, British Isles
 
 

Palace Plan (Vanbrugh, J., 1705-20)

Palace Plan: Gardens (Vanbrugh, J., 1705-20)

TARGET="image"Palace: Aerial view from South

TARGET="image"Palace: Aerial view

Palace: Aerial view from North

Palace: General view

Palace: Garden: Fountain Garden (Formal French garden, Achille Duchene, 20th c.)

Palace: Garden View of Pool (1705-20)

Palace: Garden View of Upper and Lower Gardens (1705-20)

Palace: Garden: Generl view (gardens redone by Capability Brown, 1765)

Palace: Garden View along Vanbrugh's Bridge (gardens redone by Capability Brown, 1765)

Palace: Garden: General view of Harewood Lake (Capability Brown)

Stowe, Buchinghamshire, British Isles
 
 

Old plan

Palace: Landscape Material: Bridgeman site plan, c. 1722- 1723

Palace: Landscape Material: Bridgeman's layout, 1739

Palace plan (1753)(C. Bridgeman, c. 1720's)

Palace: Landscape Material: Elysian Fields (Kent, 1753)

Palace: Aerial view, drawings as laid out by "Capability" Brown

Palace: Captain Grenville's Monument Drawing: general view

Palace: William Congreve Monument Drawing: general view

Palace: Doric Arch Drawing, general view

Palace: Rotunda Drawing, general view (John Vanbrugh, c. 1719)

Palace: Queen's Temple Drawing, general view

Palace: Garden plan

Palace: Park view from Dome Temple toward Octagon Lake

Palace: Oxford bridge

Park: View of Grecian Valley

Temple of Concord and Victory: Drawing: general view

Temple of Concord and Victory: View down Grecian Valley

Temple of Ancient Virtue: Drawing: General view

Temple of Ancient Virtue: View across Elysian fields

Stourhead, British Isles
 
 

Mansion site plan

Garden site plan

Gardens: General view

Gardens: General view of lake

Gardens: General view across lake

Gardens: General view

Gardens: General view

Gardens: General view

Gardens: Distant view across lake of gardens buildings

Gardens: General view

Turf bridge: General view

Turf bridge: General view

Turf bridge: General view

Gardens: Distant view across lake of garden buildings

Pantheon: View from across the lake

Pantheon: Distant view

Pantheon: Distant view

Pantheon: View from path

Pantheon: Distant view

Pantheon: Distant view across lake

Temple of Flora: Exterior

Temple of Flora: Distant view across lake

Temple of Flora: General view

Temple of Flora: View from path

Temple of the Sun: Exterior

Temple of the Sun: General view

Temple of the Sun: Distant view across lake

Temple of the Sun: Distant view

General view of Market Cross and St. Peter's Church

Market Cross: General view (brought from Bristol, 1768)

Gardens: Distant view of Market Cross and St. Peter's Church

Obelisk: Distant view

Obelisk: Distant view

Frederick Law Olmstead and Parks Movement

Frederick Law Olmstead, Portrait

New York City, New York: Central Park
 
 

View looking south

Aerial view map, 1863

General view and map

Plan

Historic view: Archway for Bridle Rd.

Historic view: Lake w/Prospect Tower

Historic view: Archway under Footpath

Historic view: Sheep meadow

Historic view: Temporary portable swings

Historic view: Currier and Ives winter scene

Plan

65th St.Traverse road

View looking north towards sheep meadow

View looking east

View looking north from 59th St. East

View looking west onto the pond

General view

The Terrace

View of Bethesda Fountain

Green Gap arch

View looking west over pond

Sheep meadow

The Pond looking north and Gapstow Bridge

Kreb's Memorial Model Boat house

Bandshell on the Mall

 

New York City, NY: Prospect Park
 
 

Aerial view

Plan original of 1866-67

Plan (1901) as modified by Park Commissioner

View overlooking Vale of Cashmere

View of versatile lawn space

Prospect Park: North arm of lake

 

Boston, MA
 
 

Franklin Park

Plan

General view: Entrance to playground

General view: Lawn tennis in Ellicottdale in 1903

Plan: "Parkway" promenade from Boston Common to Franklin Park

Jamaica Park

Plan (F.L. Olmstead, c. 1878)

Drawing: Skating on Jamaica Pond (Winslow Homer, 1859)

Back Bay

Back Fens (Park) (F.L. Olmstead, c. 1878)

Back Bay Plan: Olmstead's first published plan for Back Bay Fens (1879)

Fenway Park: View of Muddy River

Fenway Park: View of Stone Bridge

Fenway Park: View of Rose Garden

Commonwealth Ave.: Top (in progress); Bottom (completed)

Commonwealth Ave.: View into park

Commonwealth Ave.

The Commons: Aerial view from Hancock Tower

Common view down Tremont St., c. 1800, Common on left (watercolor)

The Commons: Fountain lake

Charlesbank Plan (F.L. Olmstead, 1892)

Charlesbank: General view and courts in the women's and children's section

Map: Metropolitan Boston in 1893 showing reservoirs and other new areas proposed by Charles Eliot

Chicago, Illinois: World's Fair, Columbian Exposition
 
 

Plan

Court of Honor: general view (1892-93)

Agriculture Building: Exterior: NW Corner (McKim, Mead, and White) (1892-93)

"A Glimpse of Venice": General view (1892-93)

General view southeast from the Illinois Building (1892-93)

Court of Honor: general view (1892-3)

Music Hall, Peristyle, and State of Republic: general view (1892-93)

General view near the Peristyle (1892-93)

General view north from colonnade (1892-93)

US Environmental Studies - Geology
 
 

Yellowstone, Montana: Falls

Yellowstone, Montana: Canyon

Yellowstone, Montana: Hot springs

Yellowstone, Montana: Lower Geyser Basin

Yellowstone, Montana: Geyser Basin

Yellowstone, Montana: Old Faithful

Grand Tetons, Wyoming: Ox beau

Grand Tetons, Wyoming: Plains and Mountains

Yellowstone, Montana: Mountain Stream

Arizona: Green Desert (national park)

Arizona: Mesa (national park)

Arizona: Mesa Mountains

Arizona: Mesa (national park)

Early Housing Design
 

Riverside, Illinois
 
 

Plan: Olmstead and Vaux (1869)

General view from a 19th century promotional brochure (Olmstead and Vaux)(1869)

Public Park (along Des Plaines River): general view (F.L.Olmstead)

General view (c. 1968)

General view (c. 1968)

General view (c. 1968)

Housing: View of subdivisional designed by Olmstead, 1875

House: General view

Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities Project (England)
 
 

Idea of City

City Growth: Planetary Town System

Ideal Garden City

The Garden City Idea Applied to London

Garden City Plan Diagram

Plan of Walwyn

Letchworth, England
 
 

Map

Map

Aerial View

Aerial view with Howard Park in foreground

Aerial view: Town center and section in foreground (1937)

Broadway: General view

Broadway: General view

Broadway: General view

Cattle Creep: General view (before 1913)

Ickneid Way (1911)

Leys Avenue (1908-1910)

Neyells Road: General view in 1905

North Avenue: View of door-to-door delivery (c. 1911)

Norton Road: View at junction with Green Lane (c. 1914)

Rushby Mead Workmen's Houses: General View

First Railway Station: General view (photo before 1912, station opened 1905)

Shops: General view (Crickmer and Foxley, 1909)

Spirella Factory: General view (C.H. Hignett)

Radburn, New Jersey
 
 

Map

Plan

Aerial view (photo taken in 1929)

Original brochure: Radburn safe for children

Original brochure: The charm of simplicity

Original brochure: Safe places for children to play

Original brochure: Two acres of garden surround the apartments

Original brochure: No house is more than 400 feet from the park

Original brochure: Acres of park in the center of every block

Original brochure: Radburn Plaza Building and convenient shopping center

Original brochure: The underpass does away with dangerous street crossings

Original brochure: A "closed-end" street - quiet, pleasant, peaceful

Original brochure: Where pedestrians and children walk in safety

Original brochure: New Fairlawn-Radburn Station of the Erie R.R.

Train Station: General view

Plaza Building: exterior facade

Elementary School: exterior

Public Recreation Department: Swimming pool

Public Green Space

View with house fronts

Multi-Family Residences View: Continuous green

Multi-Family Residences:Exterior, entrance court

Houses (attached)

Burnham Place: Plan

Burnham Place: Semi-detached dwellings

Walkway (taken 1979)

Underpass (Pedestrian)

Street Scenes: Cul-de-sac

Greenbelt, Maryland
 
 
 

Aerial view

Map

Housing (F.R.A. 1935-41)

Housing Units

Street Scene

Pedestrian Walkway

Housing: General view

Parks: Landscaping

Parks: Landscaping

Parks: Landscaping

Parks: Landscaping

Parks: Landscaping, Playground

Town Center

Town Center

Elementary School: Exterior

Elementary School: Exterior

Reston, Virginia
 
 
 

Plan

New Town's residential street

Aerial view from Lake Anne Center

 

Early Colonial Town Planning

Williamsburg, Virginia
 

Plan

Street scene: Duke of Gloucester St.

Governor's Palace: Front facade

Street scene: Duke of Gloucester St.

Brugh-Everard House: Exterior facade

King's Arm's Tavern: Exterior facade

Powell-Waller Garden: Aerial view

Deane Garden: Parterres of topiary

Palmer House: Clover-leaf garden

Geometric garden

Street scene

Street scene

Rural, plowed field

Garden: natural drainage

Garden fence

Courthouse view across market square

Aerial view gardens

Prentis House formal garden

Prentis Garden: tulips and brick path

Garden fruit grove

Ludwell Paradise House: unclipped boxwood

Burdette House: kitchen garden

John Blair House: Herb garden

Orlando Jones: Garden spring

Wythe House: Pleasure Garden

Wythe House: Pleasure Garden

Governor's Palace: View from garden

Governor's Palace: Formal gardens

Governor's Palace: Garden

Governor's Palace: Topiary

Governor's Palace: Rear gate

Governor's Palace: View down pleached alle

Governor's Palace: Maze

Governor's Palace: Bowling green

Governor's Palace: Kitchen garden

Governor's Palace: Canal

Governor's Palace: Canal and bridge

Mount Vernon, Virginia
 
 

Exterior facade (Painting by Savage, 1792)

Plan (Vaughn, 1787)

Mansion courtyard

View looking south

House: Exterior facade

Aerial view

Mansion and cow field

Upper garden greenhouse and quarters

Upper garden house

Plan: lower garden

Lower garden

Lower garden

Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia
 
 

Aerial: Perspective

Aerial: Dogwoods and redbuds in bloom

East facade view from terrace (Jefferson, 1812)

Gardens: West lawn: oval flower bed by roundabout walk

Gardens: West lawn: Tulip border

Gardens: West lawn: View towards house

Gardens: West lawn: Roundabout flower border

Gardens: The Grove: lower or wooded section

Aerial

Gardens: Kitchen garden: Garden Pavilion

Gardens: Kitchen garden: General view

Gardens: Kitchen garden: Garden Pavilion

Gardens: Kitchen garden: General Pavilion and view to southeast

Gardens: Arbor Hyacinth bean: Arbor in summer

Gardens: South Orchard: Blossoming peach trees

Gardens: Northeast vineyard garden wall and pavilion

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