| Unit name | European Exchanges: Continental Influences and English Gardens Abroad |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ARCHM0044 |
| Credit points | 10 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This is an optional unit offered in Teaching Block 2. It will explore the network of relationships between British gardens and their counterparts on the continent of Europe and in Ireland. Each seminar will focus on a particular theme, including the sources of continental ideas in British garden design; the influence of Classical ideas via the Grant Tour; the English landscape garden in Germany as exemplified at Wvrlitz and in the work of Schinkel, Lenni and Sckell; the gardens of wealthy Britons along the Rivieras and elsewhere in sunny climates; the Irish landscape garden as a parallel experience; and more broadly the ambivalence of British responses to European design ideas compared with, for example, successive waves of Anglomania in various parts of Europe.
Aims:
The unit aims to develop awareness of the distinctive character of the English garden through its contribution to a wider European context, and by exploring the influence of Continental ideas on the forms and formation of gardens in Britain to provide an understanding of how to interpret identity within a stylistic and historical frame.
By examining the English garden from a European perspective, the unit should develop the students appreciation of the transfer of influences within garden and landscaping design in ways that complement and extend the Classical Arcadia and Gardenesque (1720-1820) unit.
Seminars or classes conducted through site visits over 5 weeks.
One essay of 3,500 words.
Credit points awarded for attendance at classes and site visits, and satisfactory completion of essay.
