CHAPTER -1

INTRODUCTION
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LANDSCAPING:-

1. LANDSCAPING :
 The process of making a garden or
other piece of land more attractive
by altering the existing design,
adding ornamental features, and
planting trees and shrubs.
 Landscaping is the
development of outdoor space to
provide various amenities
i. Privacy,
ii. Comfort,
iii. Beauty and
iv ease of maintenance.
 It may involve : lawns, shrubs,
trees, plants and flowers, structures
such as seating, pools, rock
gardens, trellises or pergolas, and
paved surfaces
 It is a integrative concept which is
applied to a group of resources
which a spatial area and which
incorporates the humans values
associated with them.
 Landscape architecture is the
design of outdoor areas landmarks
and social behavioural or aesthetic
outcome.
FIG.1. Define various types of footpath design
using of grass and stone paving

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 Landscape architecture can be defined

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as the art of composing landform,

vegetation, water, buildings and paving
to create good public space
 Landscaping refers to any activity that
modifies the visible features of an area
of land, including: living elements, such
as flora or fauna; or what is commonly
called gardening, the art and craft of
growing plants with a goal of creating a
beauty within the landscape

1. 1. SOME FEATURES THAT

USE IN LANDSCAPING
i. LIVING ELEMENTS- Flora and fauna.
ii NATURAL ELEMENTS- Landforms,
terrains, water bodies. FIG.2 Landscaping around the gazebo
iii.. HUMAN ELEMENTS- Structures,
buildings, fences, etc.
iv. ABSTRACT ELEMENTS- Lighting,
weather, etc.
 These elements are use in landscaping
any garden or recreational place and it
also use in inside create green area of
the building for giving a nice view .

FIG.3. Landscaping in the front yard of the

Guest house
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HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE

2.1 HISTORY
• The history of gardening extends at least 4000years of the
human civilization
• Egyptian tomb paintings of the 1500s BC are of the
earliest physical evidence of decorative landscape design .
• The hanging gardens of Babylon are renowned as one of
the wonders of the world .
• Persian garden were normally organized symmetrically
along a center line .
• The gardening tradition brought to Rome by Lucullus.

FIG.4. Byzantine cross with pedestal

This gives garden cross all the
beauty and charm of a 4th-century

• Byzantium and Moorish Spain

kept garden traditions after the
fall of Rome.
• Around this time a separate
gardening tradition had arisen in
FIG.5.The 'real site' of the hanging china.
gardens of Babylon

• Many North American landscapes were influenced by Sir Humphry Repton, who
created both the Birkenhead Park and Victoria Park in Liverpool. However, the
two parks greatly influenced landscape architecture in Canada and the United
States.
• The formal garden at a Françoise, became the most dominant style of garden in
Europe in middle of 18th century, the nit is replaced by english and French
landscape gardens.

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The origin of landscape architecture

• The name "landscape architecture" was invented by a scots man in 1828.
• It uses the ancient skill of garden designers (to compose landform with water,
vegetation, structures and paving) and applies this skill to the man-made landscape.
• As sir Geoffrey Jellicoe wrote in the landscape of man (1975): 'it is only in the
present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity.
• A landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history'.
• Landscape architecture is set fair to become the mother of the arts.

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FIG.6 Modern front yard landscaping FIG.7 landscaping in 4th century