This video asks AND ANSWERS, over 20 fundamental questions about landscape architecture, as an art and a profession. You can read them an outline for a Theory of Landscape Architecture. For more Q&A, please click the tab (top right, above) …
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Question What is the Vitruvian approach to landscape architecture? Short answer It is a multi-layered, multi-objective design method – and an approach to giving landscape urbanism aesthetic dimensions. The Roman expression of these principles can be found in Book 1 …
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Question: Who were the top twenty greatest landscape architects in the east & west? Short answer: please see my short video on The landscape architecture canon in the east and in the west – there’s a link on the Youtube …
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Question 9. How should the term ‘architecture’ be understood in the phrase ‘landscape architecture’? Short answer. It should be understood in the broad sense, outlined by Vitruvius, rather than in the narrow post-Renaissance sense of designing buildings for human occupancy. …
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Short answer: ‘It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity’ (Geoffrey Jellicoe, The Landscape of Man, 1975). Jellicoe was inspired by Carl Gustav Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious and, it …
The links below take you to pages which answer all the questions and by 2022 there should be video answers to the questions on all these pages Q&A Answers to questions about landscape architecture as a design discipline What is …
Podcasts about landscape architecture, urban design and planning Here is the page list of landscape architecture podcasts. Many of the podcasts, by Tom Turner, are also available (or will be available) as illustrated Youtube videos. The podcasts published to up …
Was Edinburgh’s new town planned by a landscape architect? Yes. One could argue that the term ‘landscape architect’ was not invented until 1828 and could not apply to a competition design submitted in 1766. But the term ‘architect’ did not …
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Definition of the term ‘landscape architecture’ Drawing on Oxford English Dictionary (OED) definitions: Design objectives are things ‘aimed at or sought; a target, goal, or end’ Design theories are a ‘statement of rules or principles to be followed’ Design methods …
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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe’s design for the memorial to President John F Kennedy was both a brilliant project and a brilliant example of how to explain a work of landscape architecture. Physically, the design is not a major intervention in the …
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