Landscape Architecture

If you ask to find an answer to this question, many sources of information, including the Internet, you will find at best a regular (he is – the French, he's – formal) and landscape (he is – English Nature, free, natural). But often to the title of "style" yet added: Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Ukrainian, Mediterranean, Russian, eastern, rural, and so on. Let's see how long they exist on In fact, and whether they are general styles. To begin, define the concept of "style". Style – a general cultural notion that is based on the entire paradigm of the knowledge era, and defines everything that was typical of the era – the people lived, what they looked like as thought, how to perceive the world that read, listened to some music, some rhyme, what they ate, what clothes to wear. And of course, what kind of environment inhabited, how to form a worldview that embodied in the space, urban solutions, buildings, interiors and gardens – transformed the natural environment. The history of landscape art reveals how closely it was closely related to other arts – architecture, painting, sculpture, as well as with literature, obeying the requirements of the social system and adapting to nature.

In landscape art is embodied achieve Plant (ornamental horticulture, plant breeding, introduction), architectural and engineering skills (construction, irrigation, etc.). These findings were fixed in a variety of techniques that manage, canonized, elevated to aesthetic and technological principles. Another feature – the gardens and parks were also inseparable, not only with the ideas and tastes of society, but also with a life of their hosts, with a contemporary lifestyle.