Dutch research into the country house and its landscape

One of the unmistakable trends in current country house research is growing interest landscape context houses. The unquestioned emphasis on main and garden increasingly giving way to an approach that includes or focuses wider setting: village, nature, town, infrastructure, farms, churches, other This article sketches rise this offers overview various perspectives. Among aspects covered by studies are regions, choice location, productive landscape, political mental landscape. Although setting one most important recent developments research, these predominantly descriptive. calls for establishment a firmer methodological theoretical underpinning – task which it be hoped future researchers will devote themselves.