Jan Woudstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 989161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Woudstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Woudstra |
| SIGNATURE | WOUDSTRA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9625-2998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Landscape History
Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and landscapes come together in this new volume to share ideas on the future of teaching history in departments of landscape architecture, archaeology, geography and allied subjects. Design history remains important, but this volume brings to the fore the increasing importance of environmental history, econ…
Buddhist Pilgrimage at Mount Wutai
Mount Wutai, China's earliest Buddhist center, dating to the Han Dynasty's first century (206 BCE-220 CE), boasts over a hundred monasteries, numerous monuments, and ruins, drawing global pilgrims and travelers. Over its long history, as the geographical focus of imperial support shifted, the ideological underpinnings for structuring the monastic habitation on Mount Wutai also underwent a transformation, consequently altering the pilgrimage paths…
Between Fengshui and Neighbors
China's ongoing rural transition has led to dramatic infrastructural improvements in rural areas, yet local culture continues to decline. In rural east China fengshui has traditionally informed local building practice and has been revived since the "Reform and Opening" policy of 1978. It is practiced in those regions that have not yet been subjected to wholesale demolition and renewal, where residents are able to express a distinct connection to …
Reviving traditional burial rituals with feng shui
For centuries feng shui structured the practice of burial in China, only to be prohibited during the People’s Republic when it was declared illegal. With the Reform and Opening-up policy after 1978, feng shui practices have surreptitiously been revived. This paper explores these burial rituals and the way they are impacting on the landscape, both physically and socially. After providing some historical context to indicate how burial was practised…
The origins of the modern park system of the International Settlement in Shanghai (1899-1929)
This study focuses on the emergence of the modern park system of the International Settlement in Shanghai in the early 20th century. Particular attention is given to the international context, in order to identify ideas that triggered the establishment of parks, playgrounds, minor parks and tree-lined streets locally. The intention of developing a park system commenced after the appointment of Kew gardeners to supervise the development of parks a…
Culzean country park – how an iconic Scottish landscape used designation to secure a sustainable future
When in 1969 Culzean, Ayrshire, was designated as Scotland’s first country park, it utilised legislative provisions intended to provide countryside recreation space for motorists. This paper offers a critical review of the designation process, revealing how this was used by the National Trust for Scotland as a mechanism to manage their prime property, and particularly to achieve a financially sustainable future. It shows how creative financing, b…
Eight Views’ versus ‘Eight Scenes’
Bajing, translated from Chinese as ‘Eight Views’, is a well-established genre of landscape painting inspired by the Xiao Xiang Eight Views painted by Song Di in the eleventh century. It was however a much wider concept, with one strand specifically relating to ‘real’ landscapes. This paper distinguishes for the first time the Bajing tradition of painting from that of real landscape, by introducing a distinctive terminology; that is, Eight Scenes,…
In Agriculture, Learn from Dazhai’
When after 1968, millions of Chinese citizens were driven into the countryside in order to participate in agriculture as part of the Cultural Revolution, Dazhai was the model of what the countryside should be, not just socially, but also physically. In 1964 it came to prominence for its spirit of self-reliance, hard struggle and collectivism, and in this Dazhai came to embody the battle against nature and the hegemony of mankind. It was therefore…
Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-1974)
Noguchi in Paris
The Great Parterre at Chatsworth
Jan Woudstra, Colin Merrony, Michael Klemperer, The Great Parterre at Chatsworth: Refining Non-Invasive Archaeological Methods as Investigation Techniques, Garden History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 49-67
Thomas Church, Landscape Architect
Some European approaches to twentieth-century cemetery design
When considering British cemetery design, it is the grand schemes of the early nineteenth century which are widely understood to be the finest design examples even though not all are still in use as cemeteries and in spite of the fact that many have been severely neglected and vandalized. They provide us with a legacy of what can be achieved when appropriate resources are available and where there is a will to create something of distinction. Unf…
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
This work contains 140 entries representing the key figures in American landscape architecture, each accompanied by biographical material, discussion of design approach and methodology, representative plans and photographs of major plans
The Planting of the Pleasure Garden of Squerryes Court, Westerham, Kent, in 1718
Bibliographie der vor 1750 erschienenen Gartenbücher
From counter culture to eco-cathedral. The continuing legacy of Louis Guillaume le Roy
Louis le Roy (b.1924), an artist and former arts teacher at a secondary school in Heerenveen, has been one of the main Dutch cultural philosophers of the post war era. His theories, which criticised contemporary environmental behaviour, proposed a utopian two-tiered society in which dynamic small-scale cultural systems would interconnect towns and counter large-scale monoculture. In practice however the one aspect which has provided more publicit…
Louis G. le Roy
The Regeneration of Public Parks
Gartenkunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
C. Th. Sorensen
Garten Ordnung/ Darinnen ordentliche warhafftige Beschreibung/ wie man aus rechtem Grund der Geometria einen nutzlichen und zierlichen Garten… anrichten soll [1597]
The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs
A Garden for Eternity
Stored behind the metre-thick walls of Vaduz Castle lay a priceless manuscript - the fourteen volume Liber Regni Vegetabilis (Book of the Plant Kingdom). This work, created in the 18th century, and quite unknown until now, contains naturalistic illustrations of some 3,100 different plant species from all over the world, depicted in captivating beauty and exceptional detail. This is truly a work of superlatives: for more than 30 years several high…
Baume und Straucher in historischen Garten
Eight Views’ versus ‘Eight Scenes’
Bajing, translated from Chinese as ‘Eight Views’, is a well-established genre of landscape painting inspired by the Xiao Xiang Eight Views painted by Song Di in the eleventh century. It was however a much wider concept, with one strand specifically relating to ‘real’ landscapes. This paper distinguishes for the first time the Bajing tradition of painting from that of real landscape, by introducing a distinctive terminology; that is, Eight Scenes,…
The origins of the modern park system of the International Settlement in Shanghai (1899-1929)
This study focuses on the emergence of the modern park system of the International Settlement in Shanghai in the early 20th century. Particular attention is given to the international context, in order to identify ideas that triggered the establishment of parks, playgrounds, minor parks and tree-lined streets locally. The intention of developing a park system commenced after the appointment of Kew gardeners to supervise the development of parks a…
In Agriculture, Learn from Dazhai’
When after 1968, millions of Chinese citizens were driven into the countryside in order to participate in agriculture as part of the Cultural Revolution, Dazhai was the model of what the countryside should be, not just socially, but also physically. In 1964 it came to prominence for its spirit of self-reliance, hard struggle and collectivism, and in this Dazhai came to embody the battle against nature and the hegemony of mankind. It was therefore…
Dutch Flower Painting 1660-1720
Danish Landscape Design in the Modern Era (1920-1970)
The Klingenberg Garden Daybook, 1659-1722
Naturschutz und Denkmalpflege
Parks and Gardens of Britain
Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel
The Corbusian Landscape
The Florilegium of Alexander Marshal in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle
Recovering Landscape
This work collects a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention in contemporary society, and what new possibilities might emerge from this situation. Themes such as urbanism, reclamation, infrastructure, geometry, and representation are explored in discussions ddrawn from developments not only in the United States but also in the Netherlands, France, India and Southeast Asia. The contributors to this book include A…
The Use of Flowering Plants in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Interiors
The Enamelled Mead
The history of the practice of growing exotic perennials in grassy swards, which is considered by some to be a new practice, is researched. The available information is surveyed, and a number of different trends are identified. It is concluded that there is a long pedigree, with the earliest verified evidence dating from the Middle Ages, from which time the practice has continued in private gardens, but has been applied in public parks only in th…
Gartenkunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
C. Th. Sorensen
Garten Ordnung/ Darinnen ordentliche warhafftige Beschreibung/ wie man aus rechtem Grund der Geometria einen nutzlichen und zierlichen Garten… anrichten soll [1597]
The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs
A Garden for Eternity
Stored behind the metre-thick walls of Vaduz Castle lay a priceless manuscript - the fourteen volume Liber Regni Vegetabilis (Book of the Plant Kingdom). This work, created in the 18th century, and quite unknown until now, contains naturalistic illustrations of some 3,100 different plant species from all over the world, depicted in captivating beauty and exceptional detail. This is truly a work of superlatives: for more than 30 years several high…
Baume und Straucher in historischen Garten
Louis G. le Roy
The Regeneration of Public Parks
Some European approaches to twentieth-century cemetery design
When considering British cemetery design, it is the grand schemes of the early nineteenth century which are widely understood to be the finest design examples even though not all are still in use as cemeteries and in spite of the fact that many have been severely neglected and vandalized. They provide us with a legacy of what can be achieved when appropriate resources are available and where there is a will to create something of distinction. Unf…
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
This work contains 140 entries representing the key figures in American landscape architecture, each accompanied by biographical material, discussion of design approach and methodology, representative plans and photographs of major plans
The Planting of the Pleasure Garden of Squerryes Court, Westerham, Kent, in 1718
Bibliographie der vor 1750 erschienenen Gartenbücher
From counter culture to eco-cathedral. The continuing legacy of Louis Guillaume le Roy
Louis le Roy (b.1924), an artist and former arts teacher at a secondary school in Heerenveen, has been one of the main Dutch cultural philosophers of the post war era. His theories, which criticised contemporary environmental behaviour, proposed a utopian two-tiered society in which dynamic small-scale cultural systems would interconnect towns and counter large-scale monoculture. In practice however the one aspect which has provided more publicit…
The Great Parterre at Chatsworth
Jan Woudstra, Colin Merrony, Michael Klemperer, The Great Parterre at Chatsworth: Refining Non-Invasive Archaeological Methods as Investigation Techniques, Garden History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 49-67
Geography (18 works) · Art (16 works) · History (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Landscape and Cultural Studies (9 works) · Art history (8 works) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Engineering (6 works)