Design | Landscape Architecture

Identifying and using principles of design you can create a landscape that you can enjoy forever. Concentrate on color, texture, form, line, scale, and proportion. If you feel overwhelmed choosing plants and designing a garden for your own home, one place to start is to determine the architectural style of your home. From there, you can find landscape styles and the plants used most often with that style. For example, Victorian homes might be found with a vegetable rich potager or cottage garden with peonies and lily-of-the-valley. Below is a listing of Architectural styles. In some instances I have linked to Pinterest, with a board full of ideas.                ARCHITECTURAL    STYLES              AMERICAN FOURSQUARE (mid-1890s to the late 1930s) AMERICAN VERNACULAR (From 1600 and FIELDSTONE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           A term applied to a range of structures including traditional domestic and agricultural buildings, industrial and commercial structures, twentieth-century suburban houses, settlement patterns and cultural landscapes.   The beds primarily held vegetables and herbs, and might have had a few flowers lining the path. Blooming shrubs like lilac, and vines perhaps morning glory or perennial sweet pea often graced the gate or doorway. Finally, an old-fashioned rose might have been found at the corner of the house, where its fragrance could waft to greet visitors. __ Denise Wiles Adams, Restoring American Gardens. http://www.oldhousejournal.com/garden_designs_for_historic_homes/magazine/1333 ART DECO ARTS AND CRAFTS/CRAFTSMAN see also PRAIRIE SCHOOL BAUHAUS BRUTALISM MODERNISM  BEAUX ARTS (1880-1920) see also NEOCLASSICAL and Edwardian Beaux-Arts architecture "expresses the academic neoclassical architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The style "Beaux Arts" is above all the cumulative product of two-and-a-half centuries of instruction under the authority, first, of the Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution of the late 18th century, of the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1795– ). The organization under the Ancien Régime of the competition for the "Grand Prix de Rome" in architecture, offering a chance to study in Rome, imprinted its codes and aesthetic on the course of instruction, which culminated during the Second Empire (1852–1870) and the Third Republic that followed. The style of instruction that produced Beaux-Arts architecture continued without major interruption until 1968." Parkwood Estate Canada BUNGALOW/CRAFTSMAN CAPE COD CHICAGO SCHOOL ALSO KNOWN AS COMMERCIAL STYLE URBAN ROW Urban Row ground covers, birds nest spruce, dwarf evergreens  Urban row Containers with seasonal color CLASSICAL REVIVAL, Neo-classical Features include large columns, high arches, and triangular roofs, with minimal ornamentation. COLONIAL (1600's - 1750's) Features include a low foundation with two to three levels, multi-pane windows, symmetrical façades, pillars and columns, and an entry hall.  COLONIAL PERIOD and NEW REPUBLIC (1620 -1820) COLONIAL REVIVAL see also GEORGIAN  and PLANTATION                                                   The Colonial Revival style took off after the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Colonial Revival gardens—romanticized versions of the early American garden—emphasized straight lines, a central axis connecting house and garden, fountains, and box-lined parterres. CONTEMPORARY/CONTEMPORARY FOLK DUTCH COLONIAL EARLY COMMERCIAL EARLY REPUBLIC EARLY TO MID-NINTEENTH CENTURY (1820-1860) EARLY VICTORIAN (1860-1900) EASTLAKE MOVEMENT This was the belief set forth by British architect Charles Eastlake (1836 - 1906).  Eastlake's belief & book, Hint's on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery & Other Details, turned into a movement in 1872! ECLECTIC (1900-1930) EXOTIC REVIVAL FEDERAL (1700's - 1830's) see also GEORGIAN and ADAMS Marked by several chimneys, staircases, balconies, shutters, narrow windows framing the front door, arched Palladian-style windows, and fanlights (usually above the front door with a semicircle window), this style was inspired by Britain and the temples of ancient Rome. FEDERAL/ADAM see also GEORGIAN FOLK VICTORIAN FRENCH PROVINCIAL MONET'S GARDEN Giverny, France GEORGIAN  see also FEDERAL and ADAMS                                                                                                                                                         Features include square and symmetrical façades with five windows across the front, chimneys, and a centered front door with crown moulding. GOTHIC      Italian Gothic           Venetian Gothic                 A Venetian study  Byzantine – Venetian Gothic – Renaissance – Baroque – Neoclassical.                      Venetian Gothic is an Italian Gothic style, with features from Byzantine and Islamic architecture. It became an important architecture style in the 14th century and was used heavily until the 15th century. Thus, Venetian Renaissance architecture very often retained the features of its Gothic predecessor. In the 19th century, there was a revival of the style and can be seen famously in the Doge’s Palace and the Ca’ d’Oro. GOTHIC REVIVAL GREEK REVIVAL (1820 - 1860) Large examples, such as southern antebellum plantation homes, were often surrounded by gardens designed in an updated version of the ancient style. A final decorative touch, blossoming trees, like crepe myrtle and southern magnolia, and red cedars would line the imposing entrance driveways in allees. HIGH TECH INTERNATIONAL STYLE ITALIAN VILLA ITALIANATE  (1840 - 1885)                                                                                                                                           Garden Design:  Features circles cut into the lawn contain roses and annuals or a single balsam fir. An arabesque flowerbed completes the scene with perennials, including lilies, phlox, peonies, and pansies arranged according to height. Andrew Jackson Downing. Denise Wiles Adams is author of the book Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants 1640-1940 LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS LATE GOTHIC REVIVAL LATE VICTORIAN MID 19TH CENTURY REVIVAL MISSION REVIVAL see MISSION/SPANISH REVIVAL MISSION/SPANISH REVIVAL MIXED (MORE THAN 2 STYLES FROM DIFFERENT PERIODS) MODERN MOVEMENT MODERNE (1930-1960) see also ART DECO NEOCLASSICAL  see also BEAUX ARTS NEOCOLONIAL NEO-FRENCH NEO-MEDITERANIAN NEO-TUDOR OCTAGON MODE PRAIRIE SCHOOL Frank Lloyd Wright Studio Plants used: forsythia, Kentucky coffee tree, ginkgo PUEBLO QUEEN ANNE  see also VICTORIAN  (1880 - 1910)                                                                                      The front lawn of a typical Queen Anne was only broken by an occasional shade or ornamental tree. Clumps of shrubs were spaced periodically along the property line. Flowerbeds were intended to be viewed from windows, and planted with brilliantly colored annuals in the popular carpet bedding style. The centerpiece would be a circular bed of large subtropical plants castor bean in the center, followed by a ring of cannas RANCH RENAISSANCE ROMANESQUE SECOND EMPIRE SHINGLE STYLE SKYSCRAPER Sears Tower Parks Designed by world class Landscape Architects SOUTHWEST SPANISH COLONIAL REVIVAL (HISPANO-MOORISH)         1900 - 1940  See also MISSION STICK/EASTLAKE TUDOR REVIVAL JACOBEAN  "The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. It is named after King James I of England, with whose reign (1603-1625 in England) it is associated. At the start of James' reign there was little stylistic break in architecture, as Elizabethan trends continued their development. However his death in 1625 came as a decisive change towards more classical architecture, with Italian influence, was in progress, led by Inigo Jones; the style this began is sometimes called Stuart architecture, or English Baroque. " Examples: Crewe Hall, Cheshire; Hatfield House, Hertfordshire; Knole House, near Sevenoaks in Kent; Charlton House in Charlton, London; Holland House by John Thorpe; Plas Teg near Pontblyddyn, between Wrexham and Mold in Wales; Bank Hall in Bretherton; Castle Bromwich Hall near Solihull; and Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire. VICTORIAN see also LATE VICTORIAN or QUEEN ANNE                                                           The front lawn of a typical Queen Anne was only broken by an occasional shade or ornamental tree. Clumps of shrubs were spaced periodically along the property line. Flowerbeds were intended to be viewed from windows, and planted with brilliantly colored annuals in the popular carpet bedding style. The centerpiece would be a circular bed of large subtropical plants castor bean in the center, followed by a ring of cannas         LANDSCAPE    STYLES.                            Arts and Crafts Beaux-Arts / Neoclassical California Ranch Chinese Colonial Revival Italianate Japanese Mediterranean Mission Revival Modernist Naturalistic or Cohesive Picturesque Postmodernist Prairie Style Rewilding Spanish Colonial Revival (Hispano-Moorish) Victorian Gardenesque        ThemedGardens.                    Butterfly garden Childrens garden Chinese garden Color garden Cutting garden Desert garden Elizabethean/Shakespearean garden Fairy garden Herb garden Japanese garden    Medicinal/Medieval/Cloister garden Rock garden Victorian/Parterre/knot garden Wildlife garden English garden SENSORY GARDENS                           Color Theory Scent Tactile Tasteful Auditory