The mathematics of an eighteenth-century wilderness garden

• Autores: Barbara Paca
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 6, Nº 4, 1986, págs. 299-320
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Could the mathematical ordering of gardens have been of greater importance in their making to the gentleman architect of the early American Republic than is recognized today? The formal relationship of the William Paca house and garden in Annapolis, Maryland (c. 1763) has long puzzled archaeologists and garden historians. The non-alignment between house and garden causes one to wonder why the designer of a five-part neo-Palladian house would have chosen to site the principal building in such a way that its main axis would not have been continued by that of the garden.