$20 Landscape architecture essay due on April 23rd!!

LAA • 5235

Professor Juan Antonio Bueno

Florida International University School of Architecture

Theory of Landscape Architecture

Charles Waldheim. 2016 Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press

LAA • 5235

book 3

module 11

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 32

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 13

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 2

CHARLES WALDHEIM

Introduction: From Figure to Field page 2

particular topics to consider

How is landscape viable as a form of urbanism?

How may landscape urbanism supplant architecture

as the basic building block of urban form?

For the polyglots among you, does “landscape,” have the

same meaning as paysage, paesaggio, paisagem, or paisaje?

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CHARLES WALDHEIM

One: Claiming Landscape as Urbanism page 13

particular topics to consider

How is landscape urbanism different than urban design?

How are pastoralism and populist environmentalism

irrelevant in the contemporary city?

What would be relevant infrastructural projects

that landscape urbanism could address in South Florida?

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CHARLES WALDHEIM

Two: Autonomy, Indeterminancy, Self-Organization page 32

particular topics to consider

How is landscape urbanism a valid confluence

of autonomy and instrumentality in landscape architecture?

Is ecology as a metaphor environmentally sound,

socially responsible?

Is displaced authorship real?

Are automatic methods of design production valid?

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