The Idea of Villa Castagna
A garden is both a real place, and a cloud of possibilities. What you will find here will be both something real, and something that may or may not become real. For this reason you will find no map: Instead you will meet fragments, part real, part possible.
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Tag Archives: Fabriques
Portmeirion 1. Introduction
People don’t always get Portmeirion (Fig. 1). For example, it has been argued that it is a proto-Post-Modernist work, created by an architect trying to subvert the modernist norm long before Venturi and Scott-Brown came on the scene. But this … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art Deco architecture, Arts and Crafts, Baroque Gardens, Clough Williams-Ellis, Elizabethan architecture, Fabriques, Garden History, Portmeirion
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Highgrove’s Berninian Fabrique
A new book on Highgrove arrived today, by Bunny Guinness. I was interested to see if one feature was illustrated there—the Oak Pavilion—as it does not appear in any other book and they don’t let you take photos. Indeed, it … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arundel Castle, Baroque Gardens, creative gardens, Fabriques, Highgrove, Poundbury, suburban design
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Villa Castagna 
On Fabriques and Monstrous Future Ruins
‘Someone, he [Austerlitz] added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be immediately obvious that domestic buildings of less than normal size—the little cottage in the fields, the hermitage, … Continue reading →