Landscape architecture essay for MARCH 26
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book2module9-2.pdf
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
ANN WHISTON SPIRN page 173
module 9
IAN MCHARG page 173
ALLAN RUFF page 175
JOHN LYLE page 178
TERRY HARNESS page 216
module 9
MICHAEL HOUGH page 209
GARRY STRANG page 220
SIMON SWAFFIELD page 227
JOAN WOODWARD page 213
IAN MCHARG
Design with Nature page 173
particular topics to consider
How are the picturesque and ecological approaches
to landscape planning and design different?
Can the science of ecology be the basis
for the art of design?
Is ecology in landscape architecture
the equivalent of engineering in architecture?
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ANN WHISTON SPIRN
The Granite Garden page 173
particular topics to consider
Are cities set in a garden world?
What does the author mean by “garden”?
Is urbanity part of nature?
What are the consequences of setting
nature against urbanity and urbanity against nature?
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ALLAN RUFF
An Ecological Approach page 175
particular topics to consider
If the 1970s brought the environmental movement,
what does today bring to landscape architecture?
Is an attitudinal metamorphosis sufficient
to change form in landscape architecture?
Do we design for smell, taste, touch, and sound?
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JOHN LYLE
Design for Human Ecosystems page 178
particular topics to consider
Is it humanist arrogance to try to design an ecosystem?
Can humans participate in ecological processes?
The author addreses the site, structure, and function,
but does the author address change in the landscape?
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MICHAEL HOUGH
Principles for Regional Design page 209
particular topics to consider
Is it “romantic nonsense” to advocate regionalist design?
What contributes the most to placelessness in our world?
How can “small steps” be regional?
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JOAN WOODWARD
Signature-Based Landscape Design page 213
particular topics to consider
What are the “signatures” of the South Florida region?
What are our regional, temporal and spatial patterns?
What are our regional processes?
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TERRY HARKNESS
Gardens from Region page 216
particular topics to consider
What are our landscape themes in South Florida?
Do our designs reflect them?
What are our regional gardens?
Is the landscape a visual experience?
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GARY STRANG
Infrastructure as Landscape page 220
particular topics to consider
What South Florida infrastructure could become catastrophic?
Should the landscape be our regional infrastructure?
Should we address infrastructure as landscape
or landscape as infrastructure in planning and design?
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SIMON SWAFFIELD
The Theoretical Terrain of Landscape Architecdture page 227
particular topics to consider
Are the emphases on formal-functional principles of the
1930–1950s and design process of the 1950–1960s still valid?
Are the emphases on ecology of the 1960–1970s, meaning
of the 1980s, and regionalism of the 1990s still valid today?
Are these principles to be rejected or to be elaborated
in landscape architecture today?
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