How Long to Read Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens

How Long Does it Take to Read Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens by R. T. Schnadelbach

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

hidden lives / secret gardens is a synthetic history about gardens and human sexuality. Written in an accessible style for the garden enthusiast, the serious landscape designer, and those interested in the lives of international celebrities, the book explores the very roots of Modernism as begun in Florence, Italy in the very first year of the twentieth century. For the past twenty-years, R. Terry Schnadelbach, FAAR, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, has researched the Modernist era in landscape architecture. He authored a book, Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, on the Florentine landscape architect, who brought to America both the formal garden as well as its first Modernist landscapes. In hidden lives / secret gardens, Schnadelbach exposes the engaging and intertwined lives of a group of expatriates, their secluded hillside villas and secret new gardens that ushered a new direction in garden design. Three successive new gardens at Villas Gamberaia, La Pietra and I Tatti were among the earliest Modernist landscapes and were an inspiration many landscape professionals in Britain and America. While hidden lives / secret gardens manuscript focuses on the revival of the Renaissance aesthetic in Florence and paints a picture of each garden's history, it explores the new and emerging field of sexual psychology through the hidden lives of the Villa's owners and designers, revealing their artistic life styles, their commercial and sexual mores.

How long is Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens?

Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens by R. T. Schnadelbach is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens aloud.

What Reading Level is Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens?

Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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