We build fountains — those vibrant symbols of life and physical embodiments of beauty — to mark and celebrate our favoured places. This act is an honour to all, and like listening to music, it is understood on an intuitive level. We also build fountains to commemorate life. Water is the basis for, and the symbol of, life. Many fountains are articulated to recognise some person, institution, or idea. Those particular recognitions are fused with water’s deeper symbolism to convey everlastingness to the identities being celebrated.
Fountain Safari places on the shelf a sharply focused, comprehensive, useful, entertaining, and hopefully lasting survey aimed to provide a panoramic portrait of the fountain class of artistic endeavour. The material attends especially to the aesthetics of water expression by examining numerous esteemed examples. In the process, a sketch is roughed out of the evolution of fountains over some two millennia and across several cultures. Ultimately, the work attempts to deepen the understanding and appreciation of water features by identifying and clarifying their most essential aesthetic qualities.
Fountain Safari is written for design professionals, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, students of the arts or the built environment—and everyone else interested in the engaging, one-of-a-kind subject of fountains.
Fountain Safari
Fountain Story
Hadrian’s Villa
Viterbo
The Villa Lante
The Villa d’Este
Piazza Pantheon
Piazza Navona
Taorimina
Barcaccia
Saint Peter’s Square
Trevi Fountain
Caserta Palace
Villa Gamberaia
Querini Stampalia Foundation
Olivetti Showroom
The Alhambra and the Generalife
The Royal Palace of La Granja
Park Guell
The Barcelona Pavilion
The Mercury Fountain
Dubrovnic
Madiera
Schloss Hellbrunn
Schloss Linderhoff
Peterhof Palace
Prague Castle
Tivoli Gardens
Neptunbrunnen
Fontaine des Innocents
Place des Vogues
Luxembourg Gardens
Vaux le Vicomte
Versailles
Aix-En-Provence
Parc des Buttes Chaumont
Stravinsky Fountain
Shaftsbury Memorial Fountain
Trafalgar Square
Revolving Torsion
Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
Bethesda Fountain
Seagram Building
Paley Park
Sunken Garden, Chase Plaza
MIT Chapel
Longwood Gardens Main Fountain Garden
National Gallery of Art
City Center
Buckingham Fountain
Water Tower Place
Crown Fountain
Polk Bros Fountain
Vizcaya
San Antonio Riverwalk
Fountain Place
Lovejoy Plaza
Ira Keller Fountain
Jamison Square
Vaillencourt Fountain
Levi’s Plaza
Hearst Castle
Disneyland
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The Getty Center
Casa Gilardi
Fuente de los Amantes
Cuandra San Cristobal
Camino Real
Oman Falage
Agra Fort
Shalimar Bagh
The Taj Mahal
Dubai Fountain
Otani Hombyo
Ryoan-ji
Koinzan Saiho-ji
Katsura Palace
Luzhi
West Lake
Humble Administrator’s Garden
Bank of China
Rain Oculus
Al Alamein Memorial
Coles Fountain
New South Wales Parliament Fountain
Tidal Cascade
A Brief History of Fountains
The Huxtable Assertion
Fountain Collections
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