Publications

Selected publications (since 1999):

Lei Gao and Jan Woudstra, ‘From landscape of gods to landscape of man: Imperial altars in Beijing’, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 31/4 (2011), pp.231-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2011.587279

Lei Gao and Jan Woudstra, ‘Repairing broken continuity: garden heritage in the historic villages Xidi and Hongcun, China’, Historic Environment 23/1 (2011), pp. 48-55. ISSN 0726-6715. http://australia.icomos.org/publications/historic-environment/vol-23-no-1-2011-historic-cities/

Jan Woudstra, ‘The Italian Garden at Chiswick House’ English Heritage Historical Review, 5 (2010), pp.110-133.

Jan Woudstra, ‘The Rodas in the Low Countries; on the rise and progress of horticulture and gardening in The Netherlands and Belgium’, in Mirella Macera, Marcellino e Giuseppe Roda: Un viaggio nella cultura del giardino e del paesaggio (Savigliano: L’Artistica, 2010) Vol.iv, pp.93-103, 143-150; translated in Italian: ‘I Roda nei Paesi Bassi. Sul sorgere e sul progredire del’orticoltura e dell’arte giardinaggio in Olanda e in Belgio’ Vol.i, pp.205-215, 274-279. Conference proceedings La Margiaria del Castello di Racconigi (Cuneo), 22-24 September 2005.

Jan Woudstra, `The "Sheffield Method" and the first Department of Landscape Architecture in Great Britain´, Garden History 38/2 (2010), 242-266. ISSN 0307-1243.

Jan Woudstra and Peter Blundell Jones, `Some modernist houses and their gardens; part 4: A Nordic Jamaica: Olle Engkvist´s villa with wintergarden and flowering meadow in Stockholm´, Die Gartenkunst 22/2 (2010), 309-326.

Lei Gao and Jan Woudstra, `Re-solving Sharawadgi: some thoughts on its Chinese roots´, Shakkei 17/1 (2010), pp.2-9. ISSN 1368-4205.

Sally O´Halloran and Jan Woudstra, `´Rather extravagant than curious´: The ornamental plant collection of Sir John Reresby at Thrybergh, Yorkshire, from 1633 to 1646´ in Susan Kellerman and Karen Lynch, With Abundance and Variety: Yorkshire Gardens and Gardeners across Five Centuries (Yorkshire Gardens Trust, 2009), pp.19-43. ISBN 978-0-9564347-0-8

Kairan Li and Jan Woudstra, 'Ancient Chinese recreational preference reflected in the survey of traditional landscape series', in Tourism Tribune 24/6, (2009), pp.42-45. ISSN 1002-5006

Kairan Li and Jan Woudstra, 'The modernity of Chinese traditional perception of landscape reflected in serial scenes', Chinese Landscape Architecture, 25/161(2009) (5), pp.29-33. ISSN 1000-6664

Jan Woudstra, `A naturalistic backdrop: the predominant paradigm for European modernist sculpture gardens´ in Urban naturmark I landskapet- en syntes genom landskaparkitektur: festskrift till Clas Florgård, edited by Per Hedfors (Uppsala: SLU Service/Repro, 2009), pp.289-307. ISBN: 978-91-85735-14-3: as Stad och Land no 3/2009: ISSN: 1654-0565

David Jacques and Jan Woudstra, Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard Click here to order this book.(1910-1979) (London and New York, Routledge; in association with the Landscape Design Trust, 2009), 264pp. ISBN13: 978-0-415-49720-6 (hbk); ISBN13: 978-0-415-49722-0 (pbk).

Jan Woudstra, `The re-instatement of the Greenhouse Quarter at Hampton Court Palace´, Garden History 37:1 (2009), pp. 80-110. ISSN 0307-1243

Jan Woudstra, `Explorations: Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield´, European Architectural History Network Newsletter No.1 (2009), pp.18-26. ISSN 1997- 5023

Jan Woudstra, `Urban regeneration through ecological processes; The concept of the Eco-cathedral in the work of Louis Guillaume le Roy´, Landscape Architecture, No.5 (2008), pp. 65-72. ISSN 1673-1530

Jan Woudstra, `A cemetery as public greenspace: An example at Almere Haven´, Landscape Architecture, No.4 (2008), pp. 64-69. ISSN 1673-1530

Jan Woudstra and Sally O´Halloran, ``The exactness and nicety of those things´: Sir John Reresby´s garden notebook and garden (1633-1644) at Thrybergh, Yorkshire´, Garden History 36:1 (2008), pp.135-193. ISSN 0307-1243

Jan Woudstra, `The Eco-cathedral: Louis le Roy´s expression of a "free landscape architecture"´, Die Gartenkunst 20:1 (2008), pp.185- 202. ISSN 0935-0519

Jan Woudstra, `What is edging box? Towards greater authenticity in garden conservation projects´, Garden History 35:2 (2007), pp.229-242. ISSN 0307-1243

Lei Gao and Jan Woudstra, `Keeping Yuanmingyuan: a new vision through a holistic approach to conservation and authenticity´ in Proceedings of International Conference on Chinese Architectural History IV, Architectural Heritage of China within Global Vision (Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2007, pp.417-426).

Lei Gao and Jan Woudstra, `Keeping Yuanmingyuan: a mirror of attitudes and approaches to garden heritage in China (1900s-2007)´ in Géza Hajós and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Rekonstruktion in der Gartendenkmalpflege (Hannover: Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL), Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2007, pp.52-55. Workshop Abstracts und Kurzviten. ISBN 978-3-89975-125-3

Jan Woudstra and Peter Blundell Jones, `Some modernist houses and their gardens: Part 3: Sir Peter Shepheard´s house and garden, 21 Well Road, London (1977-82)´ Die Gartenkunst 19:2 (2007), pp.399-410. ISSN 0935-0519

Jan Woudstra, `Der Aufstieg der formalen Ausbildung für Gärtner in Preuβen und Groβbritannien´ in Heiner Krellig and Michael Rohde, Preuβische Gärten in Europa: 300 Jahre Geschichte (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 2007), pp.308-313. ISBN 978-3-361-00630-0

Jan Woudstra, `The rise of formal education for gardeners in Prussia and Great Britain´ in Heiner Krellig and Michael Rohde, Prussian Gardens in Europe: 300 Years of Garden History (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 2007), pp. 308-313. ISBN 978-3-361-00631-7

Jan Woudstra, `Robert Marnock and the creation of the Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Gardens, 1834-40´, Garden History 35:1 (2007), pp.2-36. ISSN 0307-1243

Sang Jun Yoon and Jan Woudstra, `Advanced horticultural techniques in Korea: The earliest documented greenhouses´, Garden History 35:1 (2007), pp.68-84. ISSN 0307-1243

Obituary `Ivor Cunningham, 1928-2007´, Landscape, May 2007, pp.10-11. ISSN 1742-2914

Jijun Zhao and Jan Woudstra, `In Agriculture, Learn from Dazhai´, Mao Zedong´s revolutionary model village and the battle against nature´ Landscape Research, 32:2 (2007), pp.171-205. ISSN 0142-6397

15 entries for 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007), edited by Rae Spencer-Jones, including: De Eco-Kathedraal, In de Tuinen van Ruinen, Beeckestijn, ING Bank, Hortus Bulborum, Twickel, Weldam, De Wiersse, Park Sonsbeek, Zypendaal, Kröller-Muller Museum, Rosendael, Museumpark, Park Zorgvliet, Arboretum Trompenburg. ISBN-13: 978 1 84403 498 7; principally between pages 520 - 542.

Jan Woudstra, `Landscape first and last´, in Barbara Simms, Eric Lyons and Span (London: RIBA, 2006), pp.34-51. ISBN 10 1 85946 256 1

Jan Woudstra, `"Fin de millenaire": British landscape design at the turn of the millennium´, World Architecture, no 193 (7/2006), p.40-44 [in Chinese] ISSN 1002-4832

Jan Woudstra, `"Striped plants": The first collections of variegated plants in late seventeenth-century gardens´, Garden History, 34:1 (2006), 64-79. ISSN 0307-1243

Jan Woudstra, 50 entries for the Oxford Companion to the Garden (Oxford: OUP, 2006), edited by Patrick Taylor; including: heempark, Jacob van Campen, Mien Ruys, Jacob P. Thijsse, J.G.Michael, Jan Thijs Pieter Bijhouwer, Constantijn Huygens, Jacob Roman, Jan van der Groen, Pieter de la Court van der Voort, W.C.J.Boer, Leonard Springer, Hugo A.C.Poortman, Zocher Family, Elswout, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Bos, Beeckestijn, Buitenhof, Clingendael, De Voorst, De Wiersse, De Ecocathedraal, Paleis Het Loo, Hofwijck, Hortus Botanicus, Hortus Bulborum, Huis Bingerden, Kasteel Amerongen, Kasteel de Haar, Keukenhof, Kröller Müller Museum Beeldentuin, Krelage Nursery, Menkemaborg, Middachten, Museumpark Rotterdam, Museumplein Amsterdam, Kwekerij Piet Oudolf, Rosendael, Royal Moerheim Nurseries, Singraven, Dr Jac.P.Thijsse Park, Trompenburg Arboretum, Twickel, Valkenberg, Vondelpark, Walenburg, Warmelo, Kasteel Weldam, Slot Zeist, Zorgvliet

Jan Woudstra, `Pavilion Gardens, Buxton: An example of a regeneration scheme in the Urban Parks Programme´, in Erik A.de Jong, Erika Schmidt, Brigitt Sigel, Der Garten- ein Ort des Wandels: Perspektiven für die Denkmalpflege (Zürich: Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH, 2006), 239-250. ISBN10:7281-3033-8, ISBN13:978-3-7281-3033-4

Jan Woudstra, `The Rodas in the Low Countries; on the rise and progress of horticulture and gardening in The Netherlands and Belgium´, in Mirella Macera, Marcellino e Giuseppe Roda: Un viaggio nella cultura del giardino e del paesaggio (Savigliano: L´Artistica, 2010) Vol.iv, pp.93-103, 143-150; translated in Italian: `I Roda nei Paesi Bassi. Sul sorgere e sul progredire del´orticoltura e dell´arte giardinaggio in Olanda e in Belgio´ Vol.i, pp.205-215, 274-279. Conference proceedings La Margiaria del Castello di Racconigi (Cuneo), 22-24 September 2005.

Jan Woudstra, `The early eighteenth century wilderness at Stainborough´ New Arcadian Journal, no.57/58 (2004-05), 65-84. ISSN 0262-558X

Jan Woudstra, Colin Merrony and Michael Klemperer, `The Great Parterre at Chatsworth: Refining non-invasive archaeological methods as investigation techniques´ Garden History 32:1 (2004), 49-67. ISSN 0307-1243

Jan Woudstra, `The changing nature of ecology: a history of ecological planting (1800-1980) in Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough, The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting (London and New York: Spon, 2004), 23-57. ISBN 0-415-25620-8

Jan Woudstra, `Garden conservation in the United Kingdom´, in Michael Rohde and Rainer Schomann, Historic Gardens Today (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 2004), 254-261. ISBN 3-361-00578-7 (translated from Historische Gärten Heute, 2003. ISBN 3-361-00567-1)

Jan Woudstra, `Postwar landscape: landscape of reality´, in Annabel Downs, Peter Shepheard (London: LDT, 2004), 58-77. ISBN 0 9518377 7 x

Jan Woudstra, `From counter culture to eco-cathedral: The continuing legacy of Louis Guillaume le Roy´, Dutch Crossing 27:2 (2003), 269-280

Jan Woudstra, `The planting of the pleasure garden of Squerryes Court, Westerham, Kent, in 1718´, Garden History 31:1 (2003), 34-47. ISSN 0307-1243

Andrew Clayden and Jan Woudstra `Some European approaches to twentieth-century cemetery design: continental solutions for British dilemmas´ Mortality 8:1 (2003), 189-208. ISSN 1469-9885

Jan Woudstra, `The Sckell Family in England (1770-1830)´ Die Gartenkunst 14:2 (2002), 211-220. ISSN 0935-0519

Peter Blundell Jones and Jan Woudstra, `Some modernist houses and their gardens: Part 2: The House of the North and the Pleasure Pavilion [Pavillon der Gartenfreude] Mattern House 1932-4 by Hans Scharoun, with garden by Hermann Mattern and Herta Hammerbacher´ Die Gartenkunst 14:1 (2002), 123-134. ISSN 0935-0519

Jan Woudstra, `A framework for good practice, not design´, Landscape Design, no 311 (2002), 6. ISSN 0020-2908

Jan Woudstra, `Landscape: an expression of history´, Landscape Design, no 308 (2002), 46-49. ISSN 0020-2908.

Jan Woudstra, `Modernism´; `Grove´; `Pathways and paving´; `Container´; `Ruys, Mien 1904-1999´; `Bijhouwer, Jan Thijs Pieter 1898-1974´; `Boer, Willem Christiaan Johannes 1922-2000´ in Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design edited by Candice A Shoemaker (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) (3 Vols). ISBN 1-57958-173-0

Andy Clayden and Jan Woudstra `Memorandum´ (CEM 91) in Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee, Cemeteries: Memoranda relating to the inquiry submitted to the Environment Sub-committee (Eighth Report)(London: House of Commons, 2001) Vol.II, p.168-169. ISBN 0-10-221501-4

Jan Woudstra, `The use of flowering plants in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century interiors´, Garden History 28/2 (2000), 194- 208. ISSN 0307-1243

Peter Blundell Jones and Jan Woudstra, `Hillier´s visitor centre, Romsey: a project by David Lea´, Architectural Research Quarterly 4/3 (2000), 204-216. ISBN 0-521-79412-9

Jan Woudstra, `The Corbusian landscape: arcadia or no man´s land´, Garden History 28/1 (2000), 135-151. ISSN 0307-1243

Jan Woudstra and Ken Fieldhouse (eds), The Regeneration of Public Parks (London: E.&F.N.Spon, with Garden History Society and Landscape Design Trust, 2000). ISBN 0-419-25900-7

Jan Woudstra and James Hitchmough, `The enamelled mead: history and practice of exotic perennials grown in grassy swards´, Landscape Research, 25/1 (2000), 29-47. ISSN 0142-6397

Jan Woudstra and Peter Blundell Jones, `Some modernist houses and their gardens´, Die Gartenkunst, 11/1 (1999), 112-122. ISSN 0935-0519

Jan Woudstra, `Detailing and materials of outdoor space: the Scandinavian example´, in Jan Birksted (ed), Relating Architecture to Landscape (London and New York: Spon, 1999), 59-76. ISBN 0-419-23150-1