Get the latest tech news

Lessons from That 1834 Landscape Gardening Guidebook

fi-le.net, the Fiefdom of Files

Having traveled through England at length, he developed a taste for this exclusive art and lamented that his compatriot aristocrats in Prussia were content with comparatively poorly designed pleasure grounds. But if you see the towers of a Gothic chapel rising from the treetops on a distant mountain and learn that it's the family burial church or a real cult's temple, then you feel satisfied, because you encountered functionality." At the risk of irritating his fellow Christians, the count installed a literal altar dedicated to the local heathen god Svantevit, simply because he wanted to connect the place to its history.

Get the Android app