Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles

Tracing the design provenance and formal evolution of a garden provides a fairly narrow understanding of the garden as place. A garden is conditioned by site-specific environmental factors, as well as by broader patterns of cultural inheritance. In fact, a garden's long-term physical survival i...

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Main Author: Kevin Risk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University 2004-06-01
Series:Landscape Review
Online Access:https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/view/128
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description Tracing the design provenance and formal evolution of a garden provides a fairly narrow understanding of the garden as place. A garden is conditioned by site-specific environmental factors, as well as by broader patterns of cultural inheritance. In fact, a garden's long-term physical survival is determined as much by adaptability to localised environmental context as by sustained recognition of cultural significance. Indeed, a garden may display elements of a recognised design tradition and still be largely vernacular in its environmental expression.
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Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles
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title Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles
title_full Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles
title_fullStr Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles
title_full_unstemmed Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles
title_short Garden in Bayou or Bayou in the Garden: Design Provenance and Environmental Adaptation at Le Petit Versailles
title_sort garden in bayou or bayou in the garden design provenance and environmental adaptation at le petit versailles
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