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http://dx.doi.org/10.14700/KITLA.2014.32.4.132

The Characteristics of Transitional Garden in The Early National Period in America - Focused on the analysis of Paca's Garden, Mount Vernon and Monticello -  

Paek, Nan-Young (Dept. of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Sangji University)
Lee, Jong-Sung (Dept. of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Sangji University)
Kim, Hyun (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Dankook University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Institute of Traditional Landscape Architecture / v.32, no.4, 2014 , pp. 132-142 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is the first stage to identify distinctive characteristics of American Romantic Garden compared to English Romantic Garden. The purpose of the study is to identify characteristics of transitional garden in the early period of America by analyzing of Paca garden, Mount Vernon and Monticello when English Naturalistic Garden was firstly imported. The analysis studied historical background, people who designed garden, formal garden and characteristics of natural garden through reference. Also based on data through reference and field research, spatial configuration and garden factors of each site were analyzed. In spatial configuration, straight line and curve line, formal terrace and natural slope, visible axis and invisible axis, symetric and asymmetric, and perspective and oblique perspectives were used as analyzing factors. As a result of analysis, each garden showed different type from that of formal gardens from colony period, which is natural garden of asymmetric garden(English natural garden) coexisted. Paca garden which planned formal garden and natural garden in each space showed characteristics of each space, but in formal garden residential axis and garden axis does not coincide which shows it is out of formal garden type. Such phenomena and the fact that naturalistic garden coexist in the same garden shows that the formal garden type from early days in US is starting to change in different types. Mount Vernon garden, similar to Paca garden, was designed to have two different types of gardens in harmony rather than divide the space into different space and design it. It adapted serpent walkway but shows symmetric by central axis and considered formalistic plan through same materials. However through terrace in hills and spatial plan of oblique perspective, one could observe that naturalistic type was beginning to settle in US gardens. Through Monticello analysis, space was designed with major characteristics of naturalistic garden which is serpent walkway, ornamental farm, winding flower bed grove and bush and oblique perspective, and it completely duplicates characteristics of naturalistic garden which could not be found in gardens imported from UK.
Keywords
American romantic garden; American transitional garden; Formal garden; Naturalistic garden;
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