Garden and Climate

Chip Sullivan

264 pages, parution le 30/05/2002

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MORE THAN ORNAMENT

Air conditioned villas in ancient Rome...windproofed, solar-heated stone seats for toasty-winter horizon-gazing in the Italian Renaissance...Peter the Cruels self-heating outdoor walkway...cooling summertime chairs fashioned from earth, grass, and flowers, attended by butterflies and breezes, from classical gardens on Mediterranean islands.

These are but a few of the wonderful historical finds Rome prize-winning landscape architect/artist Chip Sullivan uses to launch modern methods for modifying the climate in your own garden. For Garden and Climate brings you not only a beautifully illustrated tour of many of the greatest gardens of the past--from Babylon to Majorca--but also expert instructions for bringing elements from these immortal landscapes to your own backyard--for microclimate creation, temperature and humidity control no matter what the season, energy savings, and beauty, and yes, to serve the time-honored function of soothing your spirit and restoring your soul.

Contents

BOOK I: EARTH
Postulate I: Earth Seats
Postulate II: Grottoes
Postulate III: Subterranean Rooms
Postulate IV: Cyrptoportici
Postulate V: Boscoes
Postulate VI: Pineta
Garden Prototype I: The Garden of Bacchus

BOOK II: FIRE
Postulate I: Hot Seats
Postulate II: Warm Walks
Postulate III: Sunlit Terraces
Postulate IV: Warm Loggias
Postulate V: Courtyards
Postulate VI: Giardini Segreti (Secret Gardens)
Postulate VII: Liminaias (Warm Rooms)
Garden Prototype II: The Garden of the Phoenix

BOOK III: AIR
Postulate I: Cool Seats
Postulate II: Cool Walks
Postulate III: Shaddy Tunnels and Pruned Walks
Postulate IV: Arbors and Pergolas
Postulate V: Garden Pavilions and Summerhouses
Postulate VI: Interior Porches and Cool Rooms
Garden Prototype III: The Garden of Juno

BOOK IV: WATER
Postulate I: Water Catchment Devices and Irrigation Methods
Postulate II: Placid Water Devices
Postulate III: Active Water Devices
Postulate IV: Aerated Water Devices
Postulate V: Wet Walks
Postulate VI: Water jokes
Garden Prototype IV: The Garden of Neptune

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Chip Sullivan
Parution	30/05/2002
Nb. de pages	264
Format	19,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	803g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780070271036
ISBN13	978-0-07-027103-6