Guest lecturer from landscape
faculty at UNSW.
1) Villa Medici - Italian Renaissance at Fiesole, on hill overlooking Florence: long terraces, formal gardens, different heights, paved or gravel courtyards with walls, doors, gates to add ceremony; ornamented with pots,
urns etc; loggia
connecting villa to outside/garden; repetition of trees; pool;
terraces
overlooking the view have low walls with parts carved
out; a pergola is covered in greenery and is bordered with flowers-informal. Lower terraces have
formal patterns of maze-like hedging cut low and shaped trees.
2) Villa d'Este, at Tivoli, near Rome. Also Renaissance era.
High position, has terraced gardens, an oasis in contrast with rather arid surroundings; very
elaborate layout; lots
of pots; narrow sloping
paths with walls and vegetation
enclosing the paths, lots of water eg. wall with regular jets from carved animal heads along the base, ferns, fountains; descending series of ponds; further away from the villa the garden
is wilder, not so trimmed.
3) Canberra-Sculpture garden at National
Gallery, bordering Lake Burley
Griffin, native plants, careful placing of sculptures
4) Ballast Point
Park, Birchgrove: re-use of metal, rubble; plants used to clean
water, remnants of the past incorporated into the park. Different levels, terraces. Small windows in
enclosed lookouts frame the view.
5) Paddington Reserve, Oxford Street: old arches, pools
of water, sunken garden.
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