Renaissance landscape architecture

Renaissance landscape architecture

Renaissance landscape architecture was based on a ‘re-birth’ of the Roman system of grided roads and in renaissance Italy there was a striking similarity between the geometry of town designs and garden designs. Town squares derived from Greek agoras and Roman forums and Leon Battista Alberti, a complete ‘renaissance man’ followed Vitruvius in recommending a 3-to-2 ratio between the length and breadth of urban ‘squares’. He advocated specialised squares for different markets – gold, silver, wood and so forth. Some market squares were made in England but garden squares became much more popular. As shown in the rest of this video, garden designs for old castles and new country houses resembled town plans. Or one could say, probably with more accuracy, that the extension plans for eighteenth century London, Edinburgh and Bath resembled garden plans.
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