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| x Gardens of Versailles |
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The gardens of Versailles occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of Versailles. Situated to the west of the palace, the gardens cover some 800 hectares of land, much of which is landscaped in...
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| x Japanese rock garden |
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The Japanese rock gardens (枯山水, karesansui) or "dry landscape" gardens, often called "Zen gardens" were influenced mainly by Zen Buddhism and can be found at Zen temples of meditation.
Japanese gardens are a living work of art in which the plants...
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| x Hoichi Kurisu |
Hoichi Kurisu is a noted designer of Japanese gardens, active in the United States.
Kurisu studied landscape design and construction under Kenzo Ogata in Tokyo, Japan. He then was Landscape director for the Garden Society of Japan (Nihon Teien...
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| x Japanese garden |
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Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien), that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and old castles.
Some of the...
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| x Ame Japanese Garden |
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Ame (rain) is a private Japanese-inspired garden situated in Horwich, near Bolton in Greater Manchester, UK.
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| x Tea garden |
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A tea garden was a place to drink tea and stroll around lawns, ponds and view statues. These smaller versions of pleasure gardens flourished in the late 18th century. Examples were Cuper's Gardens and the area that became the Caledonian Cattle...
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| x Takeo Uesugi |
Takeo Uesugi (born in 1940 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese-American landscape architect who designed acclaimed Japanese garden installations. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Kyoto University.
Uesugi's prominent works...
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| x Roger Turner |
Roger Turner is a British garden designer and writer of gardening-related non-fiction books. He trained as an architect, and now practises as a garden designer in Gloucestershire, England. He lectures widely on garden subjects, and is the author of...
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| x Fort Worth Japanese Garden |
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The Fort Worth Japanese Garden is a 7.5-acre (3.0 ha) Japanese Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The garden was built in 1970 and many of the plants and construction materials were donated by Fort Worth's sister city Nagaoka, Japan....
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| x Seattle Japanese Garden |
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The Seattle Japanese Garden is a 3.5 acre (14,000 m²) Japanese garden in Seattle, Washington, located in the southwest corner of the Washington Park Arboretum along Lake Washington Boulevard E.
The decision had been made to include a Japanese garden...
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| x Orto botanico di Pisa |
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The Orto botanico di Pisa, also known as the Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pisa, is a botanical garden operated by the University of Pisa, and located at via Luca Ghini 5, Pisa, Italy. It is open weekday mornings without charge.
The garden was...
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| x Allerton Garden |
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Allerton Garden (庭輝く, Arutonu Garudanu), also known as Lāwaʻi-kai, is a botanical garden located on the south shore of Kauai, Hawaii. The garden covers and 80 acre area and is situated beside the Lāwaʻi Bay, in a valley transected by the Lāwaʻi...
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| x Inverewe Garden |
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Inverewe Garden is a botanical garden in Scottish Highlands. It is located just to the north of Poolewe in Wester Ross.
The garden was created in 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie on the 850 ha (2100 acres) estate surrounding Inverewe House. It covers some...
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| x George London |
George London (1681 – 1714) was an English nurseryman and garden designer. He aspired to the baroque style and worked on the gardens at Hampton Court, Melbourne Hall and Wimpole Hall.
George London's birth date is not certain but it was probably...
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| x Summer Garden |
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The Summer Garden (Russian: Ле́тний сад, Letniy Sad) occupies an island between the Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great.
The park, first conceived by Peter in...
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| x Filippo Juvarra |
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Filippo Juvarra, (March 7, 1678 - January 31, 1736) was an Italian architect and stage set designer.
Filippo Juvarra was an Italian Baroque architect working in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was born in Messina, Sicily, to a family of...
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| x Parc botanique de Suscinio |
The Parc botanique de Suscinio (28,862 m²) is a botanical garden located on the grounds of the Château de Suscinio, Morlaix, Finistère, Bretagne, France. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
The château dates to the 11th-15th centuries;...
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| x Shugaku-in Imperial Villa |
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The Shugaku-in Imperial Villa (修学院離宮, Shugaku-in Rikyū), or Shugaku-in Detached Palace, is a set of gardens and outbuildings (mostly tea-houses) in the hills of the eastern suburbs of Kyoto, Japan (separate from the Kyoto Imperial Palace). It is one...
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| x Giardini di Giusti |
The Giardini di Giusti (English: Giusti Gardens) were planted in 1580 to surround the Villa Giusti, in Verona, Italy. They are regarded as some of the most beautiful Renaissance gardens in Europe. They include a tower (built in 1701) and a hedge...
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| x Bundesgartenschau |
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The Bundesgartenschau (abbr. BUGA) is the biannual Federal horticulture show in Germany. It also covers topics like landscaping. Taking place in different cities, the location changes in a two-year cycle.
In 2009 the BUGA is arranged by Schwerin...
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| x The Japanese Garden |
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The Japanese Garden 6.5 acres (26,000 m²) is located on the grounds of the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant at 6100 Woodley Avenue, Van Nuys, California, USA, in the midst of the San Fernando Valley. It was designed by Dr. Koichi Kawana and...
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| x Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden |
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The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden is a Japanese garden encompassing 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, in Long Beach, California, USA. It was dedicated in 1981. Ed Lovell, landscape master plan...
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| x Portland Japanese Garden |
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The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 5.5 acres (22,000 m²), located within Washington Park in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, USA at 45°31′07″N 122°42′29″W / 45.51872°N 122.7080°W / 45.51872; -122.7080.
The...
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| x Japanese Garden, Singapore |
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Japanese Garden (Chinese: 星和园), also commonly known as Jurong Gardens, is a park in Jurong East, Singapore. It is built on an artificial island in the Jurong Lake area connected to the adjacent Chinese Garden island by bridge.
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| x Furman University Japanese Garden |
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The Furman University Asian Garden is an Asian garden located on the campus of Furman University at 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, South Carolina. It is open daily without charge.
Furman University has a long-term exchange program with Kansai...
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| x Wells Japanese Garden |
Wells Japanese Garden is a small Japanese garden located on Lindsay Street in Newberry, South Carolina. It is open daily.
The garden was created by W. Fulmer Wells in 1930, donated to the city in 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic...
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| x Japanese Tea Garden |
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The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California, is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. For more than 20 years San Francisco...
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| x Ro Ho En |
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Ro Ho En, the Japanese Friendship Garden is located in Phoenix, Arizona at 1125 N. 3d Ave. The Garden encompasses 3.5 acres (14,000 m) and includes a tea garden and tea house. It is a joint project of the cities of Phoenix and Himeji, Japan.
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| x John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden |
The John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden is a 4-acre Japanese garden in Mill Neck, New York, providing a retreat for passive recreation and contemplation. Moving through the garden, where the views, textures and balance of elements have been planned...
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| x Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden |
The Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, also known as the Botanic Gardens of the Komarov Botanical Institute or the Komarov Botanical Garden, is the oldest botanical garden in Russia, consisting of outdoor and rich indoor collections, which is...
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| x The garden of the Rotonda Padua |
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The garden of the Rotonda is a terraced garden, situated close to the historical centre of Padua, behind the sixteenth century wall and the Rampart of the Cat.
The name is connected to an episode which occurred during the 1509 siege by the German...
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| x Clark Botanic Garden |
The Clark Botanic Garden (12 acres) is a botanical garden located on Long Island at 193 I. U. Willets Rd, Albertson, New York. It is open to the public 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily but closed winter weekends; a voluntary donation is requested.
The...
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| x Buenos Aires Botanical Garden |
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The Buenos Aires Botanical Garden (whose official name in Spanish is Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires) is located in the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The garden is triangular in shape, and is...
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| x Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden |
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The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden (sometimes shortened to the SSR Botanical Garden), commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanical Garden, is a popular tourist attraction near Port Louis, Mauritius, and the oldest botanical garden in...
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| x Pond |
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A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is usually smaller than a lake. A wide variety of man-made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens designed for aesthetic ornamentation, fish ponds...
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| x Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid |
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The Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Spanish for the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid) is an 8-hectare botanical garden located in the Plaza de Murillo, next to the Prado Museum in Madrid (Spain).
The garden was founded on October 17, 1755, by King...
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| x Chelsea Flower Show |
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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, officially the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society ("RHS") in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, England. It is the most...
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| x André Le Nôtre |
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André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700) was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was responsible for the design and construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles, and...
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| x Parterre |
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A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern. Parterres need not have any flowers at...
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| x Topiary |
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Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of clipped trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, topiarius, creator of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans applied...
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| x English garden |
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The English garden or English landscape park (French: Jardin anglais, Italian: Giardino all'inglese, German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten) is a style of landscape garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe,...
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| x Montague Russell Page |
Montague Russell Page (1906 – 1985) was a British landscape architect and garden designer.
Former partner of Geoffrey Jellicoe and author of The Education of a Gardener (1962). In this book he looks at the history of Islamic and Classical gardens....
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| x Humphry Repton |
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Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the...
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| x Charles Bridgeman |
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Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738) was an English garden designer in the onset of the naturalistic landscape style. Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues...
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| x Henry Hoare |
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Henry Hoare II (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer.
Educated at Westminster School, Henry Hoare dominated the Hoare family through his wealth and personal charisma. Henry was a partner for...
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| x Henry Wise |
Henry Wise (bapt. 4 September 1653 – 1738) was an English gardener, designer, and nurseryman. He was apprenticed to George London, working at Brompton Nursery, on the present site of the Royal Albert Hall and the museums of South Kensington, London....
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| x John Vanbrugh |
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Sir John Vanbrugh (his surname is pronounced Van-bruh) (24 January 1664? – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken...
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| x William Kent |
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William Kent (born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
Kent's career began as a sign and coach painter who was encouraged to...
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| x Capability Brown |
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Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest...
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| x Fountain |
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A fountain (from the Latin "fons" or "fontis", a source or spring) is a piece of architecture which pours water into a basin or jets it into the air either to supply drinking water or for decorative or dramatic effect.
Fountains were originally...
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| x Pavilion |
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In architecture a pavilion (from French, "pavillon", from Latin "papilio") has two main meanings.
Pavilion may refer to a free-standing structure sited a short distance from a main residence, whose architecture makes it an object of pleasure. Large...
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| x Swimming pool |
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A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest and deepest is the Olympic size. A pool can be built...
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| x Joseph Forsyth Johnson |
Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840 – July 17, 1906) was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin.
Johnson had a family background in horticulture. His maternal grandfather John Forsyth, a florist, was the son of William Forsyth, a...
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| x Joseph Paxton |
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Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing the The Crystal Palace.
Paxton was born in 1803, the seventh son of a farming family, at Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. Some references,...
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| x Hermann von Pückler-Muskau |
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Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (born as Count Pückler, from 1822 Prince) (30 October 1785 - 4 February 1871) was a German nobleman, who was an excellent artist in landscape gardening and wrote widely appreciated books, mostly...
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| x Harold Peto |
Harold Ainsworth Peto (11 July 1854 – 16 April 1933) was an English architect and garden designer.
Peto was the son of Sir Samuel Peto, 1st Baronet, of Somerleyton Hall. In 1876 he went into partnership with Ernest George and designed houses in...
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| x Ernst Cramer |
Ernst Cramer (December 7, 1898 (Zürich/ Switzerland) – September 7, 1980) (Rüschlikon/ Switzerland) was a Swiss landscape architect and one of the most renowned European garden architects after 1945, who had a strong influence on present-day...
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| x Ralph Hancock |
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Ralph Hancock (1893-1950) built gardens in the UK in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and in the United States in the 1930s. A few are well known - the roof gardens at Derry and Toms in London and the Rockefeller Center in New York, the garden at Twyn-yr-Hydd...
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| x Geoffrey Jellicoe |
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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) was an English landscape architect, garden designer, Architect and author.
Jellicoe was born in Chelsea. He studied at the Architectural Association in London in 1919 and won a Rome Scholarship in 1923 which enabled...
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| x Peter Latz |
Peter Latz (born 1939) is a German landscape architect and a professor for landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich.
Peter Latz was born in Darmstadt and grew up in the Saarland as the son of an architect. After graduating from...
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