| Unit name | The Formal Garden (1620-1720) |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ARCHM0105 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Emeritus Professor. Mowl |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This is the first of two core mandatory units, which cover the history of landscape gardening in Britain. It will introduce students through a study of the gentlemen amateurs and landscape professionals who shaped the English landed estate, followed in each instance by site visits to relevant surviving layouts. These gardens will be set chronologically against the social and political history of the period. The Unit will open with an assessment of the gardens of the early Stuart Court and continue through the experimental years of the Interregnum to the Franco-Dutch layouts of the Restoration. It was a time when new species were being introduced on an unprecedented scale and when the plants themselves were as important as the contrived framework which displayed them. The Unit will end as early eighteenth- century Arcadias brought in more natural and informal designs where the flora took on a subsidiary role to the landscape.
