A weighty contribution to
the parks projecting in Europe was made by French
landscape architect E. André. In this fundamental
creative work “L'Art des jardins”, 1879, he put down a
set of new principles of parks projecting developing in
them an eclectical tendency that prevailed at that time in
architecture.
E. André formulated his
projective suggestions taking into consideration man's
physiological needs, thinking that the basic in park art
is to find a unity of variousness, a unity in the general
build-up of an ensemble, and variousness in separate
details.
He put great emphasis on
pictorial accents, unity of peculiar landscape with
architectural elements, as well as searched the basic
principles of spatial composition and worked out the laws
of plan and function. They are a relationship between
separate elements, distances and viewing angles of
separate zones, including as well establishment of optimal
seals and principles of arranging water-bodies, relief and
green plants.
All these principles are
applied in the Lithuanian parks, the projects of which had
been worked out by E. André.
The botanical park in the town of Palanga, where is
observed a relationship between the park itself and
environment.
Uzutrakis park serving as a
place for relaxation for numerous tourists, singles out by
its dynamic of thematic space.
Traku Voke and Lentvaris,
where the beauty of landscape with elements of
architecture are united.
Use of historical parks for new purposes makes us
responsible not only to preserve and adapt these parks
giving rise to the problems of new principles of their
regeneration, bur also to find proper solutions of
adapting them to nowadays needs of our society.
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