Essay On Persian Garden

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Persian Gardens

Luke Anstee

Assignment 1 – An illustrated academic essay on ‘An exploration of the historic and contemporary garden and landscape design culture of Persia.
Introduction
The gardens of Persia have a history of over two thousand five hundred years. As the Empire grew and sophisticated the ideas spread creating a very recognisable stylistic form of garden. (Le Notre (No Date Given)
Amazingly this style has remained much the same to this day, firstly and perhaps most obviously because it works so well in the context.
In this report I’ll be exploring the Persian Garden style and its common features, why the ideas developed. I’ll then look at the common types of Persian Garden, and conclude by comparing a historical and modern example of a Persian Garden.

Elements of a Persian garden
The basic structure of a Persian garden is known as a quadripartite, which simply means divided into 4, the four sections are divided by water and pathways, usually with some form of pool or fountain in the centre. These pathways are classically lined with rows of trees on either side.
They commonly integrate indoors with outdoors through the connection of a surrounding garden with an inner courtyard space, and designers often place architectural elements such as vaulted arches between the outer and interior areas to open up the divide between them.
They are usually situated on a slight slope, and largely oriented north-south, the larger gardens often open on to the surrounding landscape.
The oldest descriptions and illustrations of Persian gardens come from travellers who reached Iran from the west. The earliest in the fourteenth century, but it wasn’t until the 17th century and explorer called Kaempfer made ...

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