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University of Northern Colorado junior tight end Austin Wilbers loves run-blocking just as much as the next guy. However, he would like it a lot better if the Bears were winning.
Wilbers was originally recruited as a pass-catching tight end by former UNC coach Scott Downing, but has a total of five catches in his career, all of those coming this season.
He would like nothing better than to catch more passes this season and help a struggling UNC offense that is last in the conference in total offense (299.5 yards per game) and ninth in passing offense (220.0 per game) as the Bears come off their bye week this week and get ready to take on the University of Montana for homecoming at 1:35 p.m. on Saturday.
The tight ends have not been a big part of the passing game since Earnest Collins Jr. took over as coach last season. However, Wilbers would love to do whatever he can to change that, especially if it helps UNC win football games.
"I like to see the offense be successful regardless of who is catching the football," Wilbers said. "But it never hurts when the ball is in your hands. You feel like you are contributing more. There are games where other receivers are having a bunch of catches and you don't have any. As long as you are winning, it's good. But it does feel nice to have it in your hands."
Collins would also like to be able to involve the tight ends more in the passing game, but said the injuries have forced the Bears to keep their tight ends on the line as blockers in the running game and in pass protection.
"It is part of what it is right now," Collins said. "You ask them to stay in and block more just because of the injuries to be o-line and not being sure of this, that or the other. Your tight ends have got to be vital roles when you got pass-protection things and they've got to be in and pass-protect. So hopefully we can do some things when we get two in there, now we can get better with it."
That's just fine with Wilbers for now. In fact, he enjoys blocking in the running game just as much as he does catching passes; in fact, sometimes even more.
"It is a lot of fun to block for a running back, especially when you've got (Quentin Hildreth, Tromaine Dennis and Robert Holland) back there hitting the hole hard out there. It is a lot of fun. You get to lock up on the guy, engage with him and the next thing you know you have got second down-and-5 and second-and-6. I was recruited as a passing tight end, but I love mixing it up. It is fun to block."
Still, he admits it is harder to stay in the game mentally when he's not involved as much in the passing game.
"If you catch a pass route, for some reason you are more motivated to want to block on the next blocking play just because it is helping your offense," Wilbers said. "More ball distribution gets more people excited and more people ready to play and more people ready to do more than just one thing."
UNC starting tight end Doug Steele said the tight ends are being utilized every week in the offense, it is just that opportunities haven't come up in the games to catch the football.
Besides, Steele said it doesn't affect his mental game just because he isn't catching passes.
"It isn't harder mentally to get in the games," Steele said. "I am always ready for my number to be called and when it is, go out there and execute."
Collins wants to use more two tight end formations because it keeps opposing defenses from thinking that it is going to be a running play every time. He also would like to see UNC utilize 6-foot-1, 226-pound senior tight end Darin McDonald more in the passing game.
McDonald, a transfer from the University of Wyoming who has missed the last two seasons at UNC with injuries, is a big target with tons of athletic ability. In fact, he comes from a talented sports family. His brother Darnell currently plays for the New York Yankees and his other brother Donzell also played in the major leagues with the Yankees and Kansas City Royals.
"Darin McDonald is a big body that can run like a wideout," Collins said. "So we have got to find a way to get him the ball because it is a mismatch when we have him covered by a linebacker. He is too fast for them. And the safety, he is too big for them. You got to exploit those mismatches and we're going to work on that."

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DAN CARCILLO tapped a pass through Ray Emery's five-hole and turned to celebrate in front of the same Sea of Orange at Wells Fargo Center that once swallowed him up after a playoff overtime winner in 2010.
Across the ice, on the Flyers' bench, coach Craig Berube was getting ready to wave the white flag - not on this first-round series, just Game 3.
He told Steve Mason, surprise backup du jour, to get up and get active.
Trailing by three goals, Mason trudged into the net during a television timeout to little fanfare. The Flyers' supposed series savior stopped all three shots he faced in 7:15 of action, including 2 full minutes on the penalty kill.


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As director of Garden and Landscape Studies (then known as Studies in Landscape Architecture) from 1988 to 1991, John Dixon Hunt played a pivotal role in expanding the discipline by integrating the perspectives of garden practitioners with the research of more academically oriented scholars. Hunt's career at Dumbarton Oaks began several years earlier than his directorship: he was first a fellow (1984–1985) and a member of the senior fellows committee (1985–1992), and, after serving as director, a visiting scholar (2010–2011).
John Dixon Hunt was born in Gloucester, England, in 1936, where he lived until age eleven, when his family moved to Bristol. He received his BA (1957) and MA (1961) from King's College, Cambridge, and subsequently attained his PhD at Bristol University (1964). He then taught at several universities, including Vassar College, Exeter University, the University of York, and Johns Hopkins University, before coming to Dumbarton Oaks. In 1981, during his professorship at Bedford College, University of London, he founded the international quarterly Journal of Garden History, today called Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes.
As a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Hunt spent the year focused upon three main topics: the gardening innovations of landscape architect William Kent, Anglo-Dutch gardens, and the social history of the English garden. In 1986, he completed his book, Garden and Grove: the Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 1600–1750. Following his fellowship, Hunt became a professor in the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.
Subsequently, Hunt was invited back to Dumbarton Oaks to serve as director of Studies in Landscape Architecture. Hunt brought practicing landscape architects to Dumbarton Oaks at monthly afternoon talks in order to demonstrate that the discipline of landscape studies was not merely comprised of art historical subjects rooted primarily in the past, but also concerned topics of contemporary importance. At these monthly gatherings, a variety of previously overlooked regional and popular garden subjects were discussed. Likewise, he worked to include more practitioners in Dumbarton Oaks activities, recognizing the importance of bringing new viewpoints into the garden and landscape studies field, thereby helping to expand the studies program. He also led and participated in a number of public lectures, seminars, colloquia, and symposia. Michel Conan, director of Studies in Landscape Architecture from 1997 to 2008, wrote of Hunt's contributions: "Under Hunt, Dumbarton Oaks' colloquia began exploring new ground. They became an arena for intellectual jousting between various academic disciplines. A new flow of social anthropologists and geographers as well as historians started applying for fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks."
After Hunt left Dumbarton Oaks, he worked at Mrs. Paul Mellon's library at Oak Spring Farms for several years before joining the University of Pennsylvania's landscape architecture faculty, where he served as department chair for six years and thereafter remained as a professor emeritus for fourteen years. More recently, as a visiting scholar at Dumbarton Oaks in 2010–2011, Hunt gave a public lecture entitled "The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture," the themes of which later appeared in his 2014 book, Historical Ground: The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Hunt discussed the ways that garden design can invoke a sense of presumed historical significance in garden spaces, leading viewers to draw certain conclusions about the history of the space and thereby giving an illustrious sheen to the garden's present and future. In 2013, Hunt accepted a two-year position at Penn State University as the Eleanor R. Stuckeman Chair in Design.
In 2014, Hunt again returned to Dumbarton Oaks to participate in the Garden and Landscape Studies symposium "Sound and Sight in the Garden," which explored the role of ephemeral sensory experiences in shaping one's experience of gardens. Hunt's paper, "Beyond Ekphrasis, Beyond Sight, Beyond Words . . .," discussed the difficulties of relaying the ambiance of a garden to those who are unable to experience it directly, as the vicarious enjoyment of a garden is by necessity reliant on words and images, which fall short when trying to convey sounds and scents.
Currently, Hunt is finishing the last year in his six-year teaching position as a visiting professor in landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, teaching an elective seminar class on "Walking."]]>
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the longest occupied and least studied landscapes on earth. While scholarship has been attentive to images of nature made by the region's explorers and settlers and to landscapes of the colonial era—public parks and game preserves, botanical gardens and urban plans—surprisingly little attention has been paid to spaces created by and for Africans themselves, from the precolonial era to the present. This book is a contribution to a small but growing effort to address this oversight. Its essays present a range of landscapes: pathways and cairns used by nomadic peoples to navigate through and mark significant places; anthropogenic or managed forests consecrated to ritual purposes of various kinds; tombs or palaces with significant landscape orientations and components; even monumental ceremonial and urban spaces, as at Great Zimbabwe or Djenne. They explore what we know of precolonial and later indigenous designed landscapes, how these landscapes were understood in the colonial era, and how they are being recuperated today for nation building, identity formation, and cultural affirmation. Contributors engage with the most critical issues in preservation today, from the conflicts between cultural heritage and biodiversity protection to the competition between local and international heritage agendas.
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In 1826, the prince of Pückler-Muskau embarked on a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. Although captivated by all things British, his initial objective was to find a wealthy bride. He and his wife Lucie, having expended every resource on a plan to transform their estate into a vast landscape park, agreed to an amicable divorce, freeing him to forge an advantageous alliance that could rescue their project. For over two years, Pückler's letters home conveyed a vivid, often quirky, and highly entertaining account of his travels. From the metropolis of London, he toured the mines and factories of the Industrial Revolution and visited the grand estates and spectacular art collections maintained by its beneficiaries. He encountered the scourge of rural and urban poverty and found common cause with the oppressed Irish. With his gift for description, Pückler evokes the spectacular landscapes of Wales, the perils of transportation, and the gentle respite of manor houses and country inns. Part memoir, part travelogue and political commentary, part epistolary novel, Pückler's rhetorical flare and acute observations provoked the German poet Heinrich Heine to characterize him as the "most fashionable of eccentric men—Diogenes on horseback."]]>
In 1712, the Kangxi emperor published Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat (Yuzhi Bishu shanzhuang shi) to commemorate his recently completed summer palace. Through his perceptions of thirty-six of its most scenic views, his poems and descriptions present an unusually intimate self-portrait of the emperor at the age of sixty that reflected the pleasures of his life there as well as his ideals as the ruler of the Qing Empire. Kangxi was closely involved in the production of the book and ordered several of his outstanding court artists—the painter Shen Yu and the engravers Zhu Gui and Mei Yufeng—to produce woodblock prints of the thirty-six views, which set a new standard for topographical illustration. He also ordered Matteo Ripa, an Italian missionary serving as a court-artist, to translate these images into the medium of copperplate engraving, which introduced this technique to China. Ripa's hybridized interpretations soon began to circulate in Europe and influenced contemporary aesthetic debates about the nature and virtues of the Chinese garden. This artistic collaboration between a Chinese emperor and a western missionary-artist thus marked a significant moment in intercultural imagination, production, and transmission during an earlier phase of globalization.]]>
Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872–1959) was raised in the gilded splendor of New York's nineteenth-century upper class. Yet Farrand eventually decided to avoid what society and the pomp and polish of the era expected of her and instead to pursue her passion for garden design, which had been kindled by childhood trips to Reef Point in Maine.
Her mother, Mary Cadwalader Jones, and her father, the handsome Frederic Rhinelander Jones, who came from a wealthy family and worked in manufacturing, divorced in 1896 after years of estrangement. The separation placed a long-standing financial burden on her and her mother. Fortunately, they maintained their relationship with Farrand's paternal aunt, the novelist Edith Wharton. Wharton provided critically needed employment to Mary over the years as well as inspiration and encouragement to the young Farrand.
From 1893 to 1894, Farrand studied under Charles Sprague Sargent, a professor of horticulture at Harvard University and founder of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum. An outstanding student, Farrand recognized that much of the knowledge she obtained during her time there had not been found in books. With this in mind, she toured Europe after completing her studies to gain additional insight into garden design.
To augment her limited finances, Farrand sought work as a landscape gardener. For a woman to pursue such a career was not entirely unheard of at the time; however, most found limited success in the field. Initially depending on sponsorship and commissions from wealthy family friends, Farrand soon became renowned and expanded her clientele. In 1899, she became the only female founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
In 1921, Farrand first met with Mildred Barnes Bliss, who needed a landscape gardener to oversee the development of the gardens at the newly acquired Dumbarton Oaks. With overlapping social circles and similar backgrounds, Farrand and Bliss immediately took a liking to each other and became close enough in the course of their relationship to consider themselves "gardening twins." Though certainly not Farrand's only clients, Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss would become her close friends, and her work at Dumbarton Oaks would become one of her longest and most rewarding projects, earning her international recognition.
When Robert was appointed U.S. Minister to Sweden in 1923, the Blisses moved to Europe, leaving Farrand alone for much of the garden design process. Corresponding frequently with Mildred, Farrand continued her work, overseeing everything from the grandest conceptual schematics to the smallest aesthetic decisions. Inspired by classical Roman ideas about the purpose of gardens, Farrand and Mildred together designed many of the gardens to serve as extensions of the home living space. Accordingly, Farrand constructed enclosed garden areas for both pleasure and entertaining, allocating space in the garden plans for facilities such as a swimming pool, a tennis court, and an outdoor theater.
After the Blisses gave Dumbarton Oaks to Harvard University in 1940, the purpose and use of the estate changed dramatically. Farrand was now charged with adapting the gardens to suit institutional and public needs. At the request of John S. Thacher, the first director of Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand began work on her Plant Book in 1941. It was hoped that, with the Plant Book as a directive, proper steps could be taken by the institution and future landscape architects to preserve the original artistic spirit of the garden when Farrand's involvement came to an end. This private manual was published in 1980, and the work reveals a deep connection between Farrand and her landscape creation, as evidenced in numerous references to individual plants and specific outlines for their care.
Approaching her seventies after nearly twenty years of work at Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand began to distance herself from the active refashioning of the gardens. Ruth Havey, a longtime member of Farrand's staff who was familiar with Dumbarton Oaks, began to work with Mildred on new projects. By 1947, even Farrand's advisory position for the gardens had become too much for her, and she instead devoted her time to helping Mildred assemble a garden library of rare books for Dumbarton Oaks. By the early 1950s, the library had more than tripled in size, and the Blisses donated it to Dumbarton Oaks. In 1951, they created the Garden Endowment Fund, which partly was to be used "for the maintenance and enlargement of the Garden Research Library already established at Dumbarton Oaks." (Read more about the Garden Endowment Fund in posts about the Garden Library Rare Book Collection and the evolution of the Garden and Landscape Studies program.)
In 1950, Farrand gave Dumbarton Oaks her archive of drawings, photographs, and letters that related to the creation of the gardens. She felt that this collection was "of real value as few places have so long a carefully-kept record of attempts, accomplishments and failures. For the art of landscape these records are worthwhile and they should be kept safely, catalogued and protected." She advised Thacher: "It is rare that a continuous history of a place covering more than 20 years is to be found. Therefore, the papers have considerable professional value. You will of course want to make this material available and useful to students of Landscape Architecture."
After thirty years of involvement with Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand retired in 1951. She remained in close contact with the Blisses until her death in 1959. Grieving the loss of a dear friend as well as a creative collaborator, Mildred paid tribute to Farrand in a publication that she edited in 1960, Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872–1959: An Appreciation of a Great Landscape Gardener.]]>
The Byzantine Studies program had its first fellows in 1941, the Pre-Columbian program in 1970, and the Garden and Landscape program in 1972. Since 1970, the interaction among scholars of these different disciplines has proven to be fruitful, and many scholars who have spent time at Dumbarton Oaks fondly recall such interactions when they have been interviewed for the Dumbarton Oaks Oral History Project. For example, Pre-Columbian fellow Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle has spoken about the value of the weekly reports that are attended by members of all three programs. He called the experience "always enriching," and noted that attending them made him able to see "the world from other people's points of view." Fasquelle also asserted that in order to study at Dumbarton Oaks, one had to be "willing to talk a language that isn't just your own" and "be open to exposure to other fields and other ways of looking at data," and that the results of such exchange could "only be productive and good." He even went so far as to say that his archaeology fundamentally profited from the interdisciplinary interaction at Dumbarton Oaks.
In a similar manner, Annemarie Weyl Carr (Byzantine fellow, visiting fellow, junior fellow, and visiting scholar) discussed how individuals in different fields shared "common curiosities," which had "been very exciting to look at together." Carr reflected that it was through her interactions with members of other fields, particularly in the Pre-Columbian Studies program, that she "discovered anthropology," a breakthrough that proved to be "critical" for the success of her studies. Profound dialogue could even take place in more casual times and places. Byzantine Studies fellow Elizabeth A. Fisher remarked that it was a conversation "just over lunch" with a scholar in another department that "opened [her] eyes" and induced her to consider "human capacities that [she] hadn't thought about."
Interdepartmental interactions at Dumbarton Oaks can be fostered in many ways. One way is through shared residency, formerly in the Fellows Building and now in the Fellowship House. These "close quarters" allow for the spontaneous meeting of neighbors. Collaborative projects also facilitate a "better mixing" of fellows in the words of Mark Laird, who cites the contemporary art installations in the gardens as one such venture that has resulted in a "better harmony at the institutional level." Another example is the ability of the fellows to attend events such as colloquia and symposia sponsored by programs other than their own. Peter Jacobs, a former Garden and Landscape Studies senior fellows and the first recipient of the Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Fellowship, said he "enjoyed very, very much" attending the presentations of Fellows in different fields.
Maintenance of rapport among the three branches did not come without its challenges. Many scholars remember a time when it was perceived that the standing among the three programs was not equitable. Many thought that the Byzantine program was favored because it was the first to be established and that, with the creation of Pre-Columbian and Garden and Landscape Studies, these later programs necessarily had a junior status. When asked how Dumbarton Oaks had solved the problems of coexistence, former director Giles Constable replied:
Well, I doubt if they'll ever be permanently solved, I think, the way you have three such different programs, not to mention the physical side of the garden and the museum. I don't think that people often realize that D.O., although a fairly small institution, is an immensely complicated one with very different interests in these three fields which, inevitably to some extent, are jockeying for position with each other. The Byzantine was the senior program. And the Byzantinists, not only at D.O. itself but throughout the world, have always thought of it really as a Byzantine Institution and that most of the resources should be going there. Any cut-back they saw as very much at their expense.
This perception notwithstanding, the directors of Dumbarton Oaks have endeavored to make the three programs at Dumbarton Oaks increasingly equitable and productively intertwined. It has been the mission of each successive administration to obtain a balanced consideration of each of the programs so as to maximize their individual potentials as well as the potential of Dumbarton Oaks as a whole. And an important benefit of this effort is that Dumbarton Oaks' scholars, often to their surprise, obtain inspiration from and engage in meaningful discourse with their colleagues from other disciplines. In the words of Henry Ford: "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."]]>
It is our hope and expectation that the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens may in time attain as high a standing in the study of, and for its publications on, Garden Design and Ornament as the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection has already attained for its scholarly work and research. Thus will the unusual potentialities of its Gardens be fully realized.
A big question was where to house this new center. Conversion of various outbuildings, including the director's house, was considered as was the possibility of a new freestanding building, a prospect that at the time seemed too expensive. On August 16, 1949, Mildred Bliss wrote to Robert Patterson, who had become a consulting landscape architect:
Mrs. Farrand writes that she feels the cool house is too small, even for a start of what the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Centre ought to become. However, as I see no other suitable place, and as building is out of the question for a few years, and as for every reason—Harvard psychology, founders' age, economic conditions, etc.—I think it would be better to start, get the centre running and able to prove its usefulness. Later a more spacious and suitable centre can be constructed.
The creation of a brick-and-mortar center, however, was not to happen until the early 1960s. Consequently, Mildred Bliss's focus momentarily shifted from a research center analogous to the Byzantine Studies program to a "dirt-gardening" approach where garden fellows would work directly out of doors. In 1952, an advisory committee was formed, and soon thereafter fellowships were awarded. However, the annual reports indicate that the program was strictly praxis oriented. Indeed, the annual reports listed the program first under the "Gardens" section and later under "Gardens and Garden Library."
In the second half of the 1950s, things began to change. In 1956, the first true landscape architecture fellow, Ralph E. Griswold, was appointed, thereby initiating a scholarly fellowship program in garden design and garden history. In early 1957, a new advisory committee was appointed, and this committee recommended establishing three categories of fellowships: a senior research fellowship in landscape architecture (for a "mature professional landscape architecture"), a junior research fellowship (for a recent graduate), and garden scholarships (for "possibly two or more undergraduate students").
In 1958, the Blisses and the institution began discussions on a new museum wing, to accommodate just about everything that at the time had not yet found permanent housing: the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art and its library, the Byzantine coins and seals collections, Antioch mosaics which were in storage, and the landscape architecture rare book collection and garden library. Through the Blisses' patronage, Dumbarton Oaks commissioned Philip Johnson to design this addition, which was slated to be built where the Rare Book Collection presently is located. His building was envisioned as twice the size of the structure he eventually built in the Copse. The Blisses admired the modern design and, as Mildred Bliss put it, were "ready to try something new;" however a domed glass pavilion essentially in the front yard of the Main House was too radical a departure for them to countenance. They therefore decided to construct two new additions, putting the Pre-Columbian Collection and coins and seals in a reduced-scale Johnson building somewhat out of sight. Thus was born the Garden Library and its eighteenth-century style Rare Book Reading Room, designed by the more conservative Frederic Rhinelander King. With this addition, the landscape architecture center was brought indoors.
After the death of Mildred Bliss in 1969, the Garden Advisory Committee realized that the existing program needed to change. In their 1969 report, they wrote:
Fellowships were awarded exclusively to professionals in Landscape Architecture. However, the number of applicants from the practical side was never very great, and in recent years the Fellowships have been awarded to persons in related fields who have a scholarly or historical interest in garden and landscape architecture. . . . Thus the profession of Landscape Architecture does not appear at this time to be a very promising source of candidates for Fellowships.
They therefore recommended that the library be headed by a scholar who "could direct the building of the collection and also find qualified candidates for the Fellowship program." In 1971, the program held its first annual landscape architectural symposium, "The Italian Garden," chaired by David Coffin. And in 1972, a studies program in Garden and Landscape Architecture was officially inaugurated, and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall was appointed the first director of the program; she remained in that position for the next sixteen years.
The Studies in Garden and Landscape Architecture program had evolved from the praxis-oriented gardening focus to a scholarly program concerned with the history of garden design. As stated in the minutes of the Garden Advisory Committee meeting of January 9, 1973: "The research program should emphasize the study of the history of landscape architecture and the history of horticulture." The Garden Advisory Committee was dissolved in 1974 and replaced by the Senior Fellows Committee in 1975. In the late 1970s, under the directorship of Giles Constable, Dumbarton Oaks standardized its fellowships for all of its studies programs—Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape. Under the new structure, fellowships, junior fellowships, and summer fellowships were to be granted, and this system continues to the present day.]]>
Hans Puechfeldner, Nützliches Khünstbüech der Gartnereij (probably 1593)
At roughly the same time that Shakespeare wrote his plays in the England of Elizabeth I, the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (ruled 1576–1612) in Prague drew a constellation of artists and intellectuals of the highest caliber. Despite Rudolf's relative haplessness as a politician and ruler, he had exquisite taste and a curious mind: he carved out a home for the astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, for masters of occult arts, for the great Mannerist painters Bartholomeus Spranger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He also amassed an enormous Kunstkammer—a collection of art, curiosities, treasures, and rarities that included amulets, scientific devices, exotic weapons, more than three thousand paintings (including works of Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Albrecht Dürer, and Hans Holbein the Younger), unicorns' horns, mandrakes, and many, many books.
Rudolf inherited a library of at least twenty-six hundred volumes, and commissioned more over the course of his thirty-six years on the throne. Many of those books were opulent creations—one-of-a-kind manuscripts full of illustrations and bound with the richest of materials. One of these is a book now in the Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection: the only copy of the Nützliches Khünstbüech der Gartnereij, or "Useful Art-Book of Gardening," authored and drawn in pen and bistre by Hans Puechfeldner, the emperor's gardener. (The entire book, scanned at a high quality, can be viewed at this link.)
The book consists principally of hand-drawn plans for garden features of great complexity that wend their way around ornate buildings rendered in fine detail. (There are also three pages of dedicatory text addressed to Rudolf II, and several overhead views of arrangements of trees.) An air of fantasy hovers around Puechfeldner's wilder imaginings: palaces stretch indefinitely in the background, and lacy patterns of grass and hedge iterate opulently outward, longer than practicality might suggest. To the best of our knowledge, none of the plans were ever realized, and it would require a massive fortune to build the scenes suggested. None of the diagrams are marked with notes that would point in the direction of implementation, such as a fixed scale or suggestions for kinds of trees. The bulk of the drawings are done from a one-point perspective that suggests we are looking over these imaginary gardens from a very tall tower, and shading is minimal and careful, as if the view were from the middle of the day.
Yet the book is titled Nützliches, "useful." Erik de Jong, former Garden and Landscape Studies Fellow and Senior Fellow (2001–8), has done extensive research on the manuscript and writes that Puechfeldner's book is best seen as an attempt to draw the practices of the influential Brussels gardener Hans Vredeman de Vries eastward into Central Europe. Indeed, for decades the book's catalog entry had attributed authorship to Vredeman. But de Jong matched it with two siblings, also by Puechfeldner, in Vienna libraries—thus clarifying the use of "HP" and "Hans Puec" monograms in the drawings, and supported by an entry for "drei garten buchs" by Puechfeldner in the court accounts for 1597. Puechfeldner copies Vredeman in using perspective in his designs; Vredeman in turn had gotten the technique from Italy. De Jong argues that the curious abundance of Puechfeldner's sketches, which at first "may strike us as superfluous," makes sense as an attempt to demonstrate proficiency in applying Vredeman's theories, which are themselves an adaptation of classical architectural theory to garden design. Hence, "nützliches": the sketches themselves are an application of concept. (De Jong was involved in the restoration of the gardens at the Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, which gives some sense of what Puechfeldner's ornaments like Puechfeldner's might look like in practice.)
In addition to the Puechfeldner volume, the Rare Book Collection includes four treatises of Vredeman, the earliest of which dates to 1583. Vredeman's work also influenced a number of other Northern European garden designers and theorists roughly contemporary with Puechfeldner whose books can be found at Dumbarton Oaks, including the Dutch artist Crispijn de Passe's 1614 Hortus floridus and German architect Joseph Furttenbach's 1640 Architectura recreationis.]]>
Between 1947, when Mildred Bliss seriously began to acquire rare garden library books, and the late 1950s, the Garden Library Rare Book Collection grew rapidly. Within a decade, it contained publications dating to over four centuries and could boast, in the words of director John S. Thacher, "virtually every major work relating to garden design which was published in Europe and America." However, by the late 1950s, the collection had outgrown its housing in the Founders Room. Space had become so limited that some acquisition opportunities had to be turned down for lack of shelving. Among the notable books under consideration that were declined was the Comte de Buffon's seminal thirty-five volume Histoire naturelle.
In order to make further growth possible, in 1959 the Blisses offered the funds for an additional wing to house the Garden Library Rare Book Collection. Designed by Frederic Rhinelander King in 1960, the Garden Library Rare Book Room was conceived in a French neoclassical style reminiscent of an eighteenth-century European library. Books were kept in elegant mesh-fronted cases in the company of paintings and antique furniture formerly owned by the Blisses.
To insure the maintenance of this collection as well as the gardens themselves, and to assure that both would help to advance scholarship in garden design, the Blisses already, in 1951, had established the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Endowment Fund Number I in the amount of $250,000,
. . . for the maintenance, operation and development of the Gardens at Dumbarton Oaks; for the establishment of Visiting or Exchange Fellowships to or from this or other countries for the individual study of Garden Design and Ornament; for the publication of monographs or books on such subjects as garden design and ornament—and incidental decorative horticulture; for the maintenance and enlargement of the Garden Research Library already established at Dumbarton Oaks; for the support of the Garden Information Center; and for other related educational purposes.
In making this gift, however, the Blisses were quick to point out to the President and Fellows of Harvard College both its restrictions and its overreaching purpose:
This fund is not be limited to the actual maintenance, operation and development of the Gardens, which are now supported from the income of the original Dumbarton Oaks Endowment Fund established by one of our letters to you dated July 2, 1940. It is our hope and expectation that the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens may in time attain as high a standing in the study of, and for its publications on, Garden Design and Ornament as the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection has already attained for its scholarly work and research. Thus will the unusual potentialities of its Gardens be fully realized.
In 1957, Ralph Griswold became the first fellow appointed to the program that the Blisses had created, and he was followed in the early 1960s by further appointments, including those of David Chase, Bodfan Gruffydd, and Georgina Masson.
When Mildred Bliss died in 1969, the Garden Library Rare Book Collection consisted of some twenty-four hundred rare books, five thousand reference works, and a significant number of prints and drawings. The nascent program had also seen the appointment of nine fellows. As part of her residuary bequest to Harvard University on behalf of Dumbarton Oaks, Mildred Bliss increased the standing of the garden program by establishing the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Endowment Fund Number II, now in the amount of six million dollars,
For the maintenance, operation and development of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks including the establishment and maintenance of visiting or exchange fellowships for the individual study of garden design, and ornament and special planting; the publication of monographs or books on such subjects as plant material, design ornament and subjects germane to city and country gardens.
With this new and sizable endowment, in the early 1970s Dumbarton Oaks could formally inaugurate a Garden and Landscape Architecture Studies program, created on the model of the existing Byzantine Studies program. To facilitate this, a significant reorganization of the Garden Advisory Committee took place and a director of studies was appointed. This director was to be responsible, among other duties, for the expansion of the garden library rare book collection in order to further develop the collection for research purposes.
In 1972, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall was appointed the first director of studies in Garden and Landscape Architecture. Both she and her immediate successor, John Dixon Hunt, who served as Director from MacDougall's retirement, in 1988, until 1991, focused largely on acquiring rare British, Italian, and French books on garden design and garden ornament. In 1991, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn succeeded Hunt as director of studies. A fellow in the Garden and Landscape Architecture Studies program the previous year, Wolschke-Bulmahn was familiar with both the reference and rare book collections and recognized that they had noticeable strengths and weaknesses. Working with librarian Linda Lott, he sought to augment the library's holdings in areas where the collection was lacking, particularly German garden literature and American garden books of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Today, the Garden Library Rare Book Collection contains over seven thousand works, and the continually expanding reference collection boasts over twenty-one thousand items. Begun as Mildred Bliss's desire to collect and protect rare books, the collection has evolved into an in-depth collection suitable for scholarly research and publication, just as the Blisses had envisioned it.]]>
Food and the City explores the physical, social, and political relations between the production of food and urban settlements. Its thirteen essays discuss the multiple scales and ideologies of productive landscapes—from market gardens in sixteenth-century Paris to polder planning near mid-twentieth century Amsterdam to opportunistic agriculture in today's Global South—and underscore the symbiotic connection between productive landscape and urban form across times and geographies. The physical proximity of fruit and vegetable production to urban consumers in pre-revolutionary Paris, or the distribution of fish in Imperial Edo, was an essential factor in shaping both city and surroundings. Colonial expansion and modernist planning stressed the essential relation between urbanism and food production, at the scales of both the garden and agriculture. This volume offers a variety of perspectives—from landscape and architectural history to geography—to connect the garden, market, city, and beyond through the lenses of modernism, technology, scale, social justice, and fashion. Essays on the Fascist new settlements in Ethiopia, Le Corbusier's Radiant Farm and views on rural France, the urban farms in Israel, and the desakota landscape of the Pearl River Delta, to name a few, will appeal to those concerned with urban, landscape, and architectural studies.
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Technology is the practice and activity of making, as well as the tools that enable that making. It is also the realm of ideas behind those endeavors, the expanse of technical knowledge and expertise. At once material, intellectual, active, and social, technology is the purposeful organization of human effort to alter and shape the environment. Gardens, like other designed landscapes, are products of a range of technologies; their layout, construction, and maintenance would be unthinkable without technology. What are the technologies of garden making, what are the concepts and ideas behind garden technologies, and what is the meaning and experience of those endeavors?
Technology and the Garden examines the shaping and visualization of the landscape; the development of horticultural technologies; the construction of landscape through hydraulics, labor, and infrastructure; and the effect of emerging technologies on the experience of landscape. These essays demonstrate how the technics of the garden can be hidden or revealed, disguised beneath the earth or celebrated on the surface. How designers have approached technology, in all historical periods and in a diversity of places and cultures, is a central question in landscape studies.
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This colloquium also marked the launching of Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies, a new series comprising translations of classic and rare texts on garden history and on the philosophy, art, and techniques of landscape architecture.
The first two volumes were published in the fall of 2013. The first, an edition and translation of a manuscript owned by Dumbarton Oaks, is Travel Report: An Apprenticeship in the Earl of Derby's Kitchen Gardens and Greenhouses at Knowsley, England, written by the German court gardener Hans Jancke in 1874–75. The other is the translation of Die Gartenkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Garden Culture of the Twentieth Century) by the German designer Leberecht Migge, which appeared on the centenary of the book's original publication in 1913.
Given that the first two titles in the translation series are German, the focus of the colloquium was on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany and Central Europe, with comparative talks on Italy, England, Ireland, and the United States. Speakers included David Haney from the University of Kent, who translated Garden Culture and discussed Migge's response to English and American ideas about metropolitan park design; Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn from Leibniz University Hannover, who addressed Jancke's travels in the context of the education of gardeners in the second half of the nineteenth century in Germany; and Hubertus Fischer, also from Leibniz University Hannover, who focused on the travels and travel reports of German court gardeners in the early nineteenth century, especially Heinrich Ludolph Wendland. In addition, Finola O'Kane Crimmins from University College Dublin spoke on the travels of Irish revolutionaries in France and the impact of these experiences on the formation of their ideas; Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto from the University of Pennsylvania discussed the response to Palladian villa gardens in the context of the Grand Tour; and Kristof Fatsar from Corvinus University Budapest spoke about the history of adopting English landscape garden forms in Hungary in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.]]>
For centuries, travel was an important part of a gardener's initial and continuing professional training. Educational journeys to parks and gardens at home and abroad were consistently recorded in lengthy reports and articles for professional journals. The travel report by Hans Jancke (1850–1920), a court gardener who served the Prussian kings in Potsdam, Germany, is typical of this genre. Jancke's manuscript, which until now remained unpublished, describes his 1874–75 apprenticeship at Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby near Liverpool, England. Containing extensive plant lists and detailed descriptions of the horticultural regimens observed in the estate's kitchen gardens and greenhouses, the text is augmented by several measured drawings executed by Jancke. These illustrations include the hothouses used for fruit forcing, vegetable production, and exotic ornamentals, as well as a site plan based on Jancke's own survey data. Professionally focused travel journals of gardeners and garden artists were for a long time ignored as sources to be taken seriously in historical research. But Jancke's eyewitness account, especially as it documents an intense scientific curiosity, demonstrates the potential of these texts for illuminating the more technical and practical aspects of the history of the garden arts.]]>
Leberecht Migge (1881–1935) was one of the most innovative landscape architects of the early twentieth century. With work ranging from large urban parks to housing settlements with allotment gardens, he sought to create functional green spaces that would not only meet the environmental challenges of the industrial metropolis but also improve the social conditions of modern life. Migge's notion of "garden culture" captured the essence of the progressive reform movements of early twentieth-century Germany and yet was unique in proposing a comprehensive role for open space planning within this vision. The nationalistic rhetoric of Garden Culture of the Twentieth Century marks it as a political tract of the late Kaiserreich, and its deep influence within the Siedlung communities of the Weimar era attests to its lasting cultural impact. Perhaps the book's greatest significance today lies in Migge's emphasis on the socioeconomic benefits of urban agriculture, which prefigured both this important contemporary trend as well as other recent developments in green technology and infrastructure. Modern readers will find echoes of a progressivism that many have taken to be of only recent origin and will gain a better understanding of the social and economic history of pre–World War I Germany.]]>


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Texas A&M researcher Robert Webster assured us that the onslaught of seaweed still isn't as bad as we had it in April and May. What might make you think otherwise is the giant wracks of seaweed piled up on beaches on the island. "We're still getting moderate amounts of sargassum on the beach; the season isn't over," Webster, who studies most of the Texas coastline, said.
"The thing that intrigues us as scientists, if you look over the history of Galveston Island, there's been cycles, but since 2000, those cycles have changed," Webster said. Records of sargassum hitting the shores go back 160 years; the current trend is a signal the environment is changing. "Now, there's an unknown of why this is doing this with this regularity."
Still, the seaweed's more trouble than it's worth for the economic engine that helps run Galveston. The Houston Chronicle reported on changes in environmental policies in dealing with sargassum.
A three-day seaweed ambush earlier in the spring caused the vegetation to pile up, prompting crews to bring out the heavy machinery - front-end loaders to move mounds of sargassum several feet high in places.
The mass of sargassum has forced the Park Board to temporarily abandon its policy of leaving seaweed where it washes ashore to trap sand and help fight wave erosion. "There's a fine line between balancing that environmental protection with economic development," said Kelly de Schaun, executive director of the Galveston Island Park Board of Trustees.
When we asked Webster for any alternative beaches with a bit less sargassum, he told us he didn't want to encourage people to go elsewhere. But don't worry, we'll get that info to you soon. As it stands, the sargassum assault could last for another month or more.
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The conditioning classes are in the AM. Everything else is in the evening. A number of the classes above are back to back (e.g., Boxing -> Muay Thai, Boxing -> Wrestling.)
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In terms of getting started with the classes (and realizing these classes will solidly kick my ass) what would be a good sample weekly schedule and pointers on when to add something new into the mix?
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Do people generally switch styles by day (focus on Boxing M,W and wrestling/BBJ T,R)?
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On first glance, leave a day off for your body to recuperate and recharge, you may be taking on too much with that schedule.
I should clarify - that's the schedule for the gym, not my planned schedule.
I'm looking more for advice on ways to structure the week using the classes offered in the schedule.
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I imagine the editorial board would think they are on the right lines if they hold a view contrary to your own.
Assuming they could be bothered to read your idiotic ramblings.!