A new edition of a book that helped shape American landscape
architecture In 1903, Frank Albert Waugh (1869-1943) founded an
undergraduate program in ""landscape gardening"" at Massachusetts
Agricultural College, only the second such program in the nation.
The profession he helped to pioneer is now known as landscape
architecture, and the college has become the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Waugh, who had moved to New England in 1895
from his native Midwest, was one of the first practitioners to
conceive of a history of American landscape architecture. He was a
renowned teacher and horticulturalist as well as a prolific writer
on topics ranging from design to pomology, a talented printmaker,
photographer, and flutist. While Waugh's writings remained rooted
in the principles of naturalistic nineteenth-century landscape
gardening, his theories promoted modern applications. The most
comprehensive of Waugh's several published books, and widely
considered a classic in the field, Book of Landscape Gardening was
first published in 1899 and revised several times. ""Landscape
gardening is eminently a fine art,"" Waugh began each edition of
the popular text that became a standard in professional practice.
In the chapters that follow, he covers several general principles
of design and discusses three basic styles - the natural, the
architectural, and the picturesque. The book achieved its broad
appeal by striking a balance between well-known period examples and
solutions that could be achieved by the professional designer,
highway engineer, estate gardener, or average homeowner.
Photographs, many of them taken by Waugh, depict far-ranging
landscapes from Europe and Japan to diverse regions of the United
States. Several plant lists and an annotated bibliography of
landscape design sources accompany the text. In this edition, a new
introduction by historian Linda Flint McClelland examines Waugh's
contributions to landscape architecture during a period of great
technological change, growing cultural sophistication, and economic
prosperity.
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