Neoclassical

Neoclassical period is boring.
To me this period is just copying baroqe period. Thank god im in environment. I don't need to handle how to design neoclassical interior design. However, i will find out how to design a neoclassical garden just in case i have to do design this in the future.

So. a neoclassical garden.
1. has principles of balance and symmetry often found in landscapes traditions of the seventeeth century
2. Common features normally parterre gardens, double row of rees flanking a path or road.
3. Classical statuary/statues.

The main features are a massive, stone structure, with a symmetric façade, balconies, columns, a grand staircase and lavish decoration. In city planning, the Beaux Arts philosophy leads to neighborhoods, with wide boulevards, and expansive parks. This style is still seen in many St. Paul and
Minneapolis libraries and the geometric layout and architecture of American universities.

Neoclassic estate-sized gardens
Estate gardens are designed in a revival of the classic Italian villa. The main elements are stone terraces, a grand staircase, grottoes, fountains and statuary. The best existing example is the Kikuit garden on the Rockefeller estate, in the Hudson Valley, designed by W.W. Bosworth. Its size allows it to create its own distant views beyond the formal garden near the house, with a natural English landscape.

Formal, Neoclassic urban garden
Although not in the Midwest, the garden at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, designed by Beatrix Ferrand, is the most masterful existing example of a large (10 acre) urban garden in the Neoclassic style. It incorporates French, English, and Italian garden elements to create garden rooms suitable for family use or entertaining. Created mainly between 1921 and 1941, it incorporates an orangery from 1810. Built to include a swimming pool, tennis court (now a pebble garden),
and open-air theater, it uses formal borders reflecting the axial, geometric construction of the interior building spaces to create definition. The two main characteristics are clear organization along a main sight line, terminating in a focal point such as a sculpture, fountain or pleasant view, and the use of strong vertical planes such as evergreen hedges, walls made of stone, and shrub borders.

Trees, Plantings at Dumbarton Oaks
Notable trees are the Katsura, Japanese maple, American beech (clipped into a 16’ high aerial hedge), and European beech. Plant selection includes interest in all seasons. Spring blooms include cherry trees, forsythia, wisteria, azaleas, dogwood, akebia (Zone 5), and magnolia.
Early summer blooms are lilacs, perennial borders, clematis, roses, peonies, and the fringetree. Summer blooms include perennial borders, clematis, roses, and canna. Late summer features perennial borders, daylilies, fuchsia, gardenias (potted), agapanthus, and oleanders. Fall blooms include chrysanthemums and asters.


 Now lets take a look at
how French Baroque gardens are:

The inspiration for these gardens initially came from the Italian Renaissance garden of the 14th and
15th centuries and ideas of French philosopher Renée Descartes (1576–1650). At this time the French
opened the garden up to enormous proportions compared to their Italian predecessor. Their gardens
epitomize monarch and 'man' dominating and manipulating nature to show his authority, wealth, and power.
Renée Descartes, the founder of analytical geometry, believed that the natural world was objectively measurable and that space is infinitely divisible. His belief that "all movement is a straight line therefore space is a universal grid of mathematical coordinates and everything can be located on its infinitely extendable planes" gave us Cartesian mathematics. Through the classical French gardens this coordinate system and philosophy is now given a physical and visual representation.

This French formal and axial garden style placed the house centrally on an enormous and mainly flat property. A large central axis that gets narrower further from the main house, forces the viewer's perspective to the horizon line, making the property look even larger. The viewer is to see the property as a cohesive whole but at the same time is unable to see all the components of the garden. One is to be led through a logical progression or story and be surprised by elements that aren’t visible until approached. There is an allegorical story referring to the owner through statues and water features which have mythological references.

There are small, almost imperceptible grade changes that help conceal the gardens surprises as well as elongate the gardens views.These grand gardens have organized spaces meant to be elaborate stages for entertaining the court and guests with plays, concerts and fireworks displays. The following list of garden features were used:
Allée
Axis
Bosquet
Canal
Cul de sac
Fountains
Grottos with rocaille
Orangerie
Parterre de broderie
Patte d’oie (Goose foot)
Tapis Vert
Topiary




Verdict : See! they are so similar! Its so boring! Both have status, mazes,their gardens are strict and stonic, water features and the most of all! not as many flowers! Boring!