$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

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 160

module 13

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 124

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 177

CHARLES WALDHEIM page 140

CHARLES WALDHEIM

Seven: Agrarian Urbanism and the Aerial Subject page 124

particular topics to consider

Is agrarian urbanism viable in South Florida?

Would it successfully integrate family, food, work, and civic life?

Is the New Regional Pattern of Hilberseimer ecologically

compatible with the focus on urban regions of Forman?

Are the spatial collectivity of Hilberserimer, organic order of Wright,

flux urbanism of Branzi, città diffusa of Secchi and Viganò viable?

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CHARLES WALDHEIM

Eight: Aerial Representation and Airport Landscape page 140

particular topics to consider

If aerial photography changed our urban views,

how does satellite imagery affect our perception of the city?

Can geographic information systems model the complexity,

indeterminacy, and autonomous agency of the natural world?

How can we relate neutral and objective information

to future programmatic changes in the city?

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CHARLES WALDHEIM

Nine: Claiming Landscape as Architecture page 160

particular topics to consider

Should the name of the landscape architecture profession

be changed? To what?

Are landscape architecture, landscape urbanism,

and ecological urbanism different professions?

How is landscape architecture practiced in your place of origin?

Is it different than in South Florida?

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CHARLES WALDHEIM

Conclusion: From Landscape to Ecology page 177

particular topics to consider

Should architecture, ecology, or the landscape shape the city?

Is the nostalgic city of New Urbanism viable today?

Can landscape urbanism ensure ecological function, social justice,

cultural relevance in our cities—the true, the good, the beautiful?

What is the future challenge for theory

in landscape architecture?

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