Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Volume LIX
Written by Alexandru MEXI, Salma Amalia EL-SHAMALI
Cismigiu garden was designed in 1845 by Karl Friederich Wilhelm Meyer according to the requests and needs of the mid 19th century urban society of Bucharest. However, the original design and composition of the garden is now lost due to a series of successive transformations undertaken on both the architectural layout and components of the garden as well as on its planting design and composition; thus transforming the romantic 19th and 20th century romantic landscape into a contemporary livable but “adorned public space ruin”. To this end, this paper aims to compare and analyze the historical transformations that successively altered and reinvented Cismigiu garden’s overall image and composition, in the hope of understanding how and why did the garden had to be redesigned and, to a certain extent – reinvented, so many times in its history. The study is based on field research as well as on comparative analyses in both archive images and on contemporary “in situ” photographs.
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Cismigiu
