DOI Heft:
Nr. 161 (July, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0093
Studio- Talk
"architectural" gardens in which plants form quite
an inconspicuous feature, there being in fact
scarcely any accommodation for them, though their
cultivation ought to be the principal consideration
in every garden. It is exactly in this most impor-
tant aspect of garden planning that the incom
petence of the architect-designer was bound to
show itself; in the majority of cases, he has a
merely superficial knowledge of the peculiarities
and habits of plants ; of the wealth and variety of
plant life at his disposal he has little idea, and in this
respect he cannot expect reliable guidance from
the gardeners entrusted with the execution of his
orders, who regard him as an intruder in what they
consider their own legitimate domain. And be-
tween the domestic architects and those garden-
architects who have received a scientific training for
their work and also possess the artistic instinct,
there is still wanting that mutual trust which is
■essential to ensure harmonious co-operation.
Fr. Gildemeister, of Bremen, is one of the few
garden-architects in Germany whose achievements
in this domain justify one in looking to them to
materially influence the further development of a
new German garden-art. In the gardens he has
designed, he has followed the traditions of the old
German house and cottage garden, and among the
celebrated gardens of Bremen, and the numerous
gardens of the country mansions in its vicinity,
many a one may have served him as a model for
his own creations, and impressed him with the
advantages of a clear and systematically articulated
scheme, and the beauty of harmony. With a
thorough training as a horticulturist, he unites a
shrewd sense of the requirements of the present
age and modern conditions of existence. Un-
influenced by the dogmas of the landscape school,
he is guided in his work only by his own sure sense
of proportion and co-ordination in the planning of
a site, and by regard for the peculiar conditions
with which he is confronted in any particular
undertaking. And above all things he gives to
flowering plants that place which is theirs of right
in the garden, and possessing as he does an exten-
sive knowledge of the floral world, as well as a
developed taste for colour which enables him to
realise the beautiful effects to be obtained from
colour schemes yielding pleasant contrasts and to
avoid discordant juxtapositions, his gardens present
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"architectural" gardens in which plants form quite
an inconspicuous feature, there being in fact
scarcely any accommodation for them, though their
cultivation ought to be the principal consideration
in every garden. It is exactly in this most impor-
tant aspect of garden planning that the incom
petence of the architect-designer was bound to
show itself; in the majority of cases, he has a
merely superficial knowledge of the peculiarities
and habits of plants ; of the wealth and variety of
plant life at his disposal he has little idea, and in this
respect he cannot expect reliable guidance from
the gardeners entrusted with the execution of his
orders, who regard him as an intruder in what they
consider their own legitimate domain. And be-
tween the domestic architects and those garden-
architects who have received a scientific training for
their work and also possess the artistic instinct,
there is still wanting that mutual trust which is
■essential to ensure harmonious co-operation.
Fr. Gildemeister, of Bremen, is one of the few
garden-architects in Germany whose achievements
in this domain justify one in looking to them to
materially influence the further development of a
new German garden-art. In the gardens he has
designed, he has followed the traditions of the old
German house and cottage garden, and among the
celebrated gardens of Bremen, and the numerous
gardens of the country mansions in its vicinity,
many a one may have served him as a model for
his own creations, and impressed him with the
advantages of a clear and systematically articulated
scheme, and the beauty of harmony. With a
thorough training as a horticulturist, he unites a
shrewd sense of the requirements of the present
age and modern conditions of existence. Un-
influenced by the dogmas of the landscape school,
he is guided in his work only by his own sure sense
of proportion and co-ordination in the planning of
a site, and by regard for the peculiar conditions
with which he is confronted in any particular
undertaking. And above all things he gives to
flowering plants that place which is theirs of right
in the garden, and possessing as he does an exten-
sive knowledge of the floral world, as well as a
developed taste for colour which enables him to
realise the beautiful effects to be obtained from
colour schemes yielding pleasant contrasts and to
avoid discordant juxtapositions, his gardens present
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