CHAPTER VIII
Garden Architecture
bridges, gatehouses, gateways, gates,
walls, balustrades, stairs
Since the disappearance of the formal garden,
the necessity of scholarly design for garden
buildings has been forgotten, and the result is
seen in buildings and details, which are not
simple and childlike, but wholly pretentious
and bad. This is not due solely to the
enterprise of the landscape gardener. The
fault lies quite as much with his employer, who,
Garden Architecture
bridges, gatehouses, gateways, gates,
walls, balustrades, stairs
Since the disappearance of the formal garden,
the necessity of scholarly design for garden
buildings has been forgotten, and the result is
seen in buildings and details, which are not
simple and childlike, but wholly pretentious
and bad. This is not due solely to the
enterprise of the landscape gardener. The
fault lies quite as much with his employer, who,