Fountaineer
Fountaineer is a
Hydraulic engineer
.
Fountaineer describes one who designs, explores, or is passionate about fountains and their design, operation, and use. In addition, the Fontainiers made the water pipes from lead, the restoration of which, from the point of view of monument preservation, is the responsibility of today's fountain masters.[1]
Fountaineers
Notable fountaineers include:
- André Le Nôtre: Gardens of Versailles; others.
- Lawrence Halprin: Keller Fountain Park; Freeway Park; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; others.
- Dundas Square; proposed World Trade Centermemorial fountains [world's largest human-made waterfall]
- Jeff Chapman: fountaineer-ing as subject.
- Jean Tinguely + Niki de Saint Phalle: Stravinsky Fountain; others..
- Fountains of Bellagio; others.
See also
- Fountain (Duchamp)
- Fountains in Paris
- List of fountains in Rome
- Category: Fountains
- Category: Outdoor sculptures
References
- Liz Clayton "Fountaineer-ing", Spacing, special issue on Water, Summer 2007, pp42–43
- Jeff Chapman, The man behind YIP? and Infiltration zines, urban explorer, and fountaineer.
- ^ Morisot, Joseph-Madeleine-Rose (1814). Tableaux détaillés des prix de tous les ouvrages de batiment (in French). Nouzou.
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