Taj Mahal Complex - <div style="text-align: justify;">Tracing a path through formalism to social history and critical theory, this essay traces how the shift in focus from the garden (reductively defined as a quadripartite form) to the landscape (defined in geographic and environmental terms) has allowed a more complex understanding of the environment, formed as much by natural conditions such as water, topography, and time, as by human design.</div>

From Garden to Landscape: Lessons from the Taj and the Alhambra

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2021
Tracing a path through formalism to social history and critical theory, this essay traces how the shift in focus from the garden (reductively defined as a quadripartite form) to the landscape (defined in geographic and environmental terms) has allowed a more complex understanding of the environment, formed as much by natural conditions such as water, topography, and time, as by human design.

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Ruggles, D. Fairchild. "From Garden to Landscape: Lessons from the Taj and the Alhambra."  International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10, 1 (2021): 89-98.

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