This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...solution of the problem lies not in the direction of greater expenditure, but rather in a proper recognition of its importance, as a legitimate part of the Architect's design. The suburban garden is not an independent matter to be dealt with any time and anyhow. The Owner's attitude toward the treatment of the site ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...solution of the problem lies not in the direction of greater expenditure, but rather in a proper recognition of its importance, as a legitimate part of the Architect's design. The suburban garden is not an independent matter to be dealt with any time and anyhow. The Owner's attitude toward the treatment of the site should be as toward the building, because they are strictly parts of an ensemble. While we realize that he will regard this advice as perhaps the " unkindest cut of all," we feel that it must be accepted if the result is to be satisfactory to him. The gardens which we illustrate herewith (Figs. 33, 34, and 40-45) are those of larger and more expensive houses than we have in mind in these pages, but the principles involved in their design remain the same as for more modest establishments; and the same kind of a mind that conceived them is required to design the smaller layout. There is really no reason why the modest suburban lot of seventy-five or one hundred feet frontage should not be as appropriately and attractively treated as the pretentious gardens that we reproduce. But with the treatment of the site, as with the house, it is difficult even for an artist to accomplish much with little money to spend; the opportunity for the competent man exists, notwithstanding, and it is necessary for the Owner to consider also this side of the Architect's work in selecting him. The Architect who designs a house without reference to its environment and the site which it is to occupy is not any more judicious than the author who writes without knowing the people that are to read him. The state of the contemporary suburban site shows that, as a matter of fact, it is seldom considered in relation to the house. A hole is dug in some convenient part ...
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