The design and building of the Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

• Autores: Edward J. Diestelkamp
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 2, Nº 3, 1982, págs. 233-272
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Kew Palm House is one of the most important horticultural structures of the 19th century, the finest achievement in the combination of iron and glass to appear at its time. Based upon ideas and theories promulgated during the second decade of the century, the Palm House achieved a sophistication in its design and arrangement which realized and surpassed the ideas of Mackenzie, Knight and Loudon. During the intervening 30 years between the formulation of these theories and the design of the Palm House many experiments in the design of horticultural structures had been conducted in connection with heating, ventilation and structure. Following close on the completion of the Great Conservatory at Chatsworth, the most singular achievement of its time, the Palm House incorporated many of the same ideas. However, the nature of the Palm House was distinct from that of its near contemporary, owing mainly to the pre-eminent application of iron rather than a combination of wood and iron as in the Great Conservatory at Chatsworth.