中文简介：

本书探讨了18世纪英国乔治亚时代的景观建筑。在这个时期，一些伟大的建筑师尝试着通过创新、不同的形式和新技术将花园建筑从形式主义的束缚中解放出来，构建更广泛的花园和公园区域。这个时期的花园建筑不仅涵盖了公园和花园的明显装饰，如寺庙、避暑山庄、石窟、塔楼和装饰性建筑等，还包括一些以实用功能为主的结构，如陵墓、船屋、鸽子笼、马厩、狗舍、鹿栏、谷仓和牛棚等，它们也可以被装扮成建筑的效果。

罗杰·怀特（Roger White）是研究这一时期景观建筑的权威之一，他从建筑学角度、功能和文化的角度来研究这些结构，考虑风格的起源和发展问题。在书中，他重点介绍了英国18世纪领先的建筑师范布鲁、霍克斯莫、吉布斯、肯特、亚当、钱伯斯、怀亚特和索恩的贡献，展示了创新多元的花园建筑时期的丰富图解。

英文简介：

The invention and evolution of the Georgian landscape garden liberated garden buildings from the corset of formality, allowing them to structure much more extensive areas of garden and park. One of the leading authorities on Georgian landscape architecture, Roger White explores a genre in which some of the era's greatest architects experimented with different forms, styles, and new technology. Covering not just the obvious adornments of parks and gardens such as temples, summerhouses, grottoes, towers, and “follies,” the book also explores structures with predominantly practical functions, including mausolea, boathouses, dovecotes, stables, kennels, deer pens, barns, and cowsheds, all of which could be dressed up to make an architectural impact. White examines these structures not only architecturally but from a functional and cultural viewpoint, considering questions of stylistic origins and development. Focussing on the contributions of Britain's leading eighteenth-century architects―Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Kent, Adam, Chambers, Wyatt, and Soane―Georgian Arcadia provides a richly illustrated account of a period of innovative and diverse garden building.