Articles on landscape architecture theory
The Concise Oxford Dictionary (7th edn) defines a theory as a 'supposition or system of ideas explaining something'. In the case of landscape architecture, the topics in need of explanation include the following practical, philosophical, scientific and technical issues:
- The aims and objectives of landscape architecture
- The origins of landscape architecture as a professional activity
- The fields of art, science and technology which have most relevance to the practice of landscape architecture
- The design methods which are, and have been, used by landscape architects
Aspects of these questions are considered in the notes and articles listed below:-
See Also
- Archetypal patterns in landscape architecture
- Community ideas in landscape architecture
- Community planning & design
- Definitions of landscape architecture
- What is landscape architecture?
- Aesthetics and landscape architecture
- Design Theory
- Design with nature'
- Ecological ideas and landscape architecture
- Environmental psychology and design
- History and theory of landscape architecture & garden design
- Hippocratic Oath (landscape architect's version)
- Design methods for landscape architecture and garden design
- The histories of garden design and landscape architecture
- Information resources for landscape designers
- Landscape Architecture History and Theory CD
- The origin of 'landscape architecture'
- Lanship = Friendship between people and places
- Manifesto for an Unblinkered Landscape Architecture
- Master Plans
- Mimesis and the imitation of nature
- What is the 'mother of the arts'
- The origin of Landscape Architecture
- The Single Tree Principle
- Structuralism and Landscape Design
- Sustainable landscape design
- Landscape theorists
- The Theory of Landscape Architecture
- Vitruvius The Ten Books on Architecture
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