Landscape architecture essay for MARCH 26

LAA • 5235

Professor Juan Antonio Bueno

Florida International University School of Architecture

Theory of Landscape Architecture

Simon Swaffield, editor. 2002 Theory in Landscape Architecture Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvannia Press

LAA • 5235

book 2

JAMES CORNER page 130

module 8

ANN WHISTON SPIRN page 125

JOHN DIXON HUNT page 131

POTTEIGER PURINTON page 136

JAMES CORNER page 144

module 8

DENIS COSGROVE page 165

ELIZABETH MEYER page 167

ANN WHISTON SPIRN

The Language of Landscape page 125

particular topics to consider

Landscape was and is our dwelling,

but is landscape a language, the first language?

Are emotions sufficient to experience the landscape

or do we need words to do so?

What is problematic with considering the landscape

merely scenery?

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JAMES CORNER

The Hermeneutic Landscape page 130

particular topics to consider

Does landscape exist prior to language?

Does the concept of landscape exist prior to language?

How do you emphasize remembrance, renewal,

and transfiguration in the landscape through design?

Is the textual landscape a hermeneutic medium,

both text and site?

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JOHN DIXON HUNT

Reading and Writing the Site page 131

particular topics to consider

Is what we now consider wilderness,

nature or prima natura, or a second nature or altera natura?

Are gardens “a more refined, more acute, and more intricate

expression of human experience”?

Do “forms have significance and content”?

Can verbal accounts be translated into forms?

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POTTEIGER PURINTON

Landscape Narratives page 136

particular topics to consider

Are narratives already implicit in the landscape?

Are meanings in the landscape infinite?

Can “open narratives” lead to meaning and significance

in the landscape?

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JAMES CORNER

Representation and Landscape page 144

particular topics to consider

How can the drawing be both an agent and a catalyst

of meaning in landscape architecture?

How are spatiality, temporality, and materiality in landscape

architecture different than in other design professions?

Should the drawing be a metaphor

for the visible and the invisible in the landscape?

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DENIS COSGROVE

Landscape as Cultural Product page 165

particular topics to consider

In our contemporary society,

can we ever be the “insider” in the landscape?

How does technology affect our perception of the landscape?

How has the Information Age change our idea of landscape?

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ELIZABETH MEYER

The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture page 167

particular topics to consider

Should landscape interpretations be based

on personal experience as well as historical perpective?

Can the site alone afford meaning and form?

Is idealism masculinist and contextualism feminist?

Does it matter?

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