Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Landscape Garden Series Country Estates
When the general direction lines for the views are established, and the proper Space given to each area or working part, we have the basis of a working plan or scheme. The style of architecture and the emphasis of features should then be determined to fit the needs of the problem. After the buildings have once been built and such con struction work as grading, road building and planting, are done, it is difficult to rearrange them so as to make a satisfactory plan. A road that may be made to emphasize natural scenery by frequent turns and detours from a natural line of direct approach may have certain advantages for a morning walk, but for use as a motor road or entrance may be inconvenient.
A road that has curves and turns because of grade, topographical reasons, may be the best solution of the problem, but a deliberate tum ing and twisting in order to display features becomes unhandy because of the loss of its purpose as an entrance drive.
This has brought about the division of the drives into entrance, or business drives and displays drives, motor or carriage roads and bridle paths.
In the organization of the plan for a country place, the location of the house group and its immediate surroundings so as to take advantage of the best views, is of the first importance to the owner for the best endowment of the open country and the landscape architect for the success of the plan. The principal views out have an import ant in?uence on the general location and orientation of the house. The principal axes are determined by the general view directions. In the opening or closing of other views and vistas, care must be taken that too many lines do not carry out so as to produce a confusion of views. A magnificent view down a river or across a valley, is the principal picture.
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