Théorie des jardins.

by Bénédicte Auguste Morel

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De Ganay, 98; voir Stafleu-Cowan, III, p. 577 (note sur l auteur). dition originale, tr s rare. Architecte du prince de Conti, Jean-Marie Morel fut le concepteur de nombreux parcs et jardins. Il dessina les jardins l anglaise du ch teau de la Celle-Saint-Cloud, et en ex cuta divers autres au ch teau de Limours, Ermenonville et Sceaux. En 1804 il con ut pour l Imp ratrice Jos phine la grande serre chaude de la Petite Malmaison , anc tre de toutes les grandes serres du XIXe si cle. Jean-Marie Morel (1728 1810), a leading French landscape designer and theorist, is now mainly remembered as the author of one of the fundamental eighteenth-century texts in the history of landscape architecture, the Th orie des jardins (1776; second edition, 1802). With his background as an engineer, Morel was instrumental in shaping the functions of landscape architecture, opening up a new professional domain by coining the term architecte-paysagiste, the precursor to the modern designation landscape architect. Morel stands out among eighteenth-century theorists because of his interest in the natural processes that underlie the formation of landscape. His unique theoretical contribution was, therefore, an attempt to develop an approach to garden design grounded in the new understanding of natural processes, which brought together picturesque theory and landscape practice, taking into account a wide range of environmental factors that had an impact on the work of an architecte-paysagiste. Morel belie

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