Swensen, Cole

Ours

Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi HISTORY A Garden Is a Start 3(4) Paradise 7(1) Leaving the Middle Ages 8(1) The Birth of Landscape Architecture 9(1) The Garden as Architecture Itself 10(1) The Garden as Word Game 11(1) The Garden as Extension 12(2) Sir Mine 14(1) Gardens Belong 15(4) PRINCIPLES In an Effort to Make the Garden a Standing Proof 19(1) Certain Principles Must Be Observed 20(1) A Garden Occurs in Four Stages 21(1) A Garden as a Letter 22(1) A Garden as Between 23(1) A Garden as a Unit of Measure 24(1) Anamorphosis 25(1) Euclid's Eighth Theorem 26(1) Because a Garden Must End 27(4) VAUX-LE-VICOMTE If a Garden of Numbers 31(1) Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and Space 32(1) Working Conditions 33(1) Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) 34(1) Water 35(1) Labyrinths and Mazes 36(3) OTHER GARDENS Saint-Germain-en-Laye 39(1) Chantilly 40(1) Saint-Cloud 41(2) Meudon 43(4) THE MEDICIS Catherine (1519-1589) 47(3) Marie (1573-1642) 50(5) The Luxembourg Gardens 55(6) VERSAILLES Versailles the Unfurled 61(4) The Divinity of the Sun King 65(1) The Garden as a Map of Louis XIV 66(1) Le Notre's Drawings 67(1) And the Birds, Too 68(5) The Reign of Louis XIV 73(2) The Ghost of Much Later 75(4) STATUARY 79(8) ORANGERIES 87(14) ``YOU ARE A HAPPY MAN, LE NOTRE'' On Happiness 97(1) Psychic Botany 98(1) The Gardened Heart 99(1) Tuileries, January 2007 100(1) Keeping Track of Distance 101