A Terrace Garden


Architects & Custom Designers of Homes Embraced by Livable Gardens

Living in a
"GardenHome"
is like living
a dream come true!

Welcome to Our Home Page Who we are & What we do Only Architects can make affordable 'Dream Homes' come true! A Home embraced by a practical yet beautiful Garden is a 'GardenHome' - Short Overview We'll help you Create a Home that is Better not just Bigger Our partially glass-roofed GardenRooms are meant for everyday living, dining, and entertaining, and perfect for growing indoor plants Our Gardens are places in which to live and enjoy yourself In your private 'RoofGarden' you'll always feel on Top of the World A GeoThermal Heat Pump more than pays for itself by drastically reducing your HVAC and Water Heating bills Let us help you create a Home you won't have to abandon should you ever become disabled in any way A Garden is a series of 'Outdoor Rooms without Ceilings' designed to be lived in and enjoyed. At its most beautiful, 'Landscaping' is still just a picture frame. A beautiful Garden adds to your Quality of Life! Here are the reasons why you should have a Garden rather than just Landscaping Excerpts of Bill Hoppe's upcoming book by the same title. Stay tuned for more chapters! An Example of a GardenHome Concept Design Drawing How we Manage our Projects We want a Close and Viable Relationship capable of Producing the Results you seek! How we will Handle Your Project - Overview What our Hourly Rates are based on Here we'll give you a 'Ball Park' idea of our Costs BEFORE you buy that Property, let us take a good look at it FIRST! Tell us what you think of our site and our 'GardenHome' concept ENJOY Our Biographies and Faces How to get a hold of us

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Links to Interesting Sites

Introduction: ...

        On the following three pages you'll find a total of 140 links that will keep you well entertained and busy for quite a while, we promise!  As you can well imagine, these pages will forever remain "Works in Progress".   We suggest that you visit them often to see what we have added, that you download and bookmark your "finds", and that you pass them along to your family and friends!  Oh, and by the way, ALLof the sites that you'll ever find here will be top notch and, basically,  NON-commercial in nature!

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... Some 62, wonderful architecture, gardens & gardening,
fine-arts,  history, and literature sites

A.  Architecture:

01  American Architecture  – Interesting site on architectural styles
02  Architecture Links on the World Wide Web  – Boston College
03  Architecture Magazine
04  Cyburbia  - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center
05  Historic Houses of Amsterdam, Holland A Garden in Amsterdam                      :                                  
– A fantastic Amsterdam municipal website  which might take you days, literally, fully to explore!  (Als U Nederlands spreekt, klik hier voor de meer uitgebreide Hollandse versie!) Enjoy!
06  Home, Gargantuan Home – Brian Kane, Landscape Architect –Washington Post, Sunday, May 27, 2001; Page B08
07  Monster Suburbs – Molly Ivins, Columnist,  The Austin-Fort Worth Star-Telegram 26 May 2001
08  The Great Buildings Collection
09  The International Real Estate Digest
– Directories of architects, realtors, contractors, suppliers, etc.
10  (The) Not So Big House – An architectural site that is growing by leaps and bounds in popularity these days and promotes home design principles that are fully in tune with ours! 
11  The American Institute of Architects
12  The American Institute of Landscape Architects
13  The American Society of Interior Designers
(More to come)

B.  Gardens & Gardening:

01  A History of Landscape Architecture    Flower Garden       
– A site consisting mostly of images
02  Foundation of the Castle Baroque Gardens
  – Beautiful pictures and interesting text.
03  Garden and Forest  – The Library of Congress has digitally reproduced all ten volumes of this American Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, and Forestry, published between 1888 and 1897.
04  Gardens in Andalucia – Gardens of Southern Spain including the Alhambra and Generalife gardens!
05  Horace Walpole's Essay On Modern Gardening – Renaissance Gardens
06  Italian Renaissance Gardens – A large site featuring eight Renaissance gardens  – Professor F.W. Kent, Monash University
07  The Boboli Gardens – Beautiful
08  The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance – Fantastic site!  Offers virtual tours of the "Villa d'Este", the "Villa Lante", and "The Sacred Grove of Bomarzo" gardens.   Will keep you enthralled for hours and hours!
09  Garden Visits & Travel Guide
10  The Gardens at Dumbarton Oaks – Also, see our own "Virtual Tour"!
11  The GardenWeb Virtual Library of Gardening Links
12   USDA's Website on "Gardening"
13  The Garden Helper – A virtual Garden Encyclopedia
(More to come!)

C.  Fine Arts:

01  The Peasant Wedding - Pieter Bruegel the Elder Art History Resources on the web      
–  Thousands of interesting links (For more, visit D. History -01 below)  Unbelievable!
02  ARC-The Art Renewal Center   New   Another unbelievably rich site that features more than 1,700 artists and 16,000 screen-sized images, in addition to tons of news stories, features, articles, editorials, essays, technical information, and links to other, affiliated websites, artists, and organizations.  Like the one below, you will be coming back to this site over and over again!
03  Carol F. Gerton Fine Arts Site –  Virtual Art Museum – Another huge and marvelous site that offers, what amounts to, a fully annotated, "Virtual Tour" of the thousands upon thousands of pictures hanging in virtually every art museum of the world.  Enjoy!
04  Guggenheim Museum
05  The Louvre
06  Mark  Harden's "Artchive"
07  Museums - Worldwide Index
08  Smithsonian Museum of American Art
09  The National Watch & Clock Museum – Good place to go if you have too much time on your hands... :-)
10  Vatican Museums (Musei Vatican) – Art of the Vatican Museums
(More to come)

D.  History:

01  Art History Resources – Maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor, Art History, Sweet Briar College, VA– An enormous site offering thousands of links to art sites ranging from the Paleolithic to the Modern era  and covering every civilization and area of the world! – Going for a Phd in "Fine Arts"?
02  Internet Ancient History Sourcebook -and- 03  Internet Medieval History Sourcebook -and- 04  Internet Modern History Sourcebook – Another huge series of sites created and maintained by Paul Halsall at Fordham U.
05  American Civil War Homepage. – Considered to be one of the best sites on the subject.
06  American Memory – Historical Collection of documents, photos, and more from the Library of Congress.
07  Presidents – Biographies, speeches, highlights, cabinet members, and election results, from Internet Public Library.
08  U.S. Historical Documents.
09  The Development of Western Civilization, Rome. – A large, U of Evansville, site.
(More to come)

E.  Literature:

01  Bookwire – A great website for book information; includes many reviews.
02  Fiction Index – Great set of indexes and annotated booklists from the San Antonio Public Library.
03  Great Books – Reading lists of classics for all ages from a highly respected national program.
04  New York Review of Books – Selections from past 6 months.
05  Online Literary Criticism Collection – Maintained by the Internet Public Library at the Univ. of Michigan Library School.
06  Oprah's Book Club – List of books chosen for discussion by the talk show host.
07  Web Sites for Book Lovers – Extraordinary collection of reviews, authors, awards, and more from Morton Grove Public Library. Helpful links to genre fiction:  romance, mysteries, science fiction, westerns.
08  Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
09  Bible Gateway – searchable Bible dictionary, concordance, and phrase-finder.
10  Dictionaries.
11  Language Translator.
12  Merriam-Webster OnLine.
(More to come)

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