{"id":10610,"date":"2014-04-18T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2014-04-18T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:02:41","slug":"landscape-architecture-as-narrative-for-a-dragon-garden-in-ladakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/landscape-architecture-as-narrative-for-a-dragon-garden-in-ladakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape architecture as narrative &#8211; for a Dragon Garden in Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o_JRMW7BysA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis video was produced to explain the ideas behind the making of a Dragon Garden for a Buddhist-influenced school in Ladakh. The aim was to explain the design to the school&#8217;s clients and end-users: the children.<br \/>\nI began studying landscape architecture in 1969 and was introduced to the subject by a garden historian (Frank Clark) and by an admirer and student of Ian McHarg (Michael Laurie). Frank had a keen appreciation of the role of association (with the classical world) in design. Michael, I later appreciated, was a Modernist &#8211; as was McHarg. It took me a long time to realise that these approaches have most value when combined.<br \/>\nLandscape Urbanism can, and in my view should, be regarded as a design approach which integrates ecological and cultural approaches to landscape design (&#8216;Michael and Frank&#8217; in my own mind).<br \/>\n&#8216;Why the Dragons want a Garden in Shey&#8217; is a children&#8217;s&#8217; story.  A great flood almost destroyed the Buddhist school in 2010. So the dragons said they would help make a garden. But only if the children would help too. When the garden was lush with vegetation and buzzing with bees, two of the children decided to become landscape architects.<br \/>\nThere is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/19\/the-dragon-garden-in-shey-and-landscape-architecture-for-the-druk-white-lotus-school-in-ladakh-india\/\">more &#8216;grown-ups&#8217; account of the Dragon Garden&#8217;s landscape architecture<\/a> on Youtube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video was produced to explain the ideas behind the making of a Dragon Garden for a Buddhist-influenced school in Ladakh. The aim was to explain the design to the school&#8217;s clients and end-users: the children. I began studying landscape architecture in 1969 and was introduced to the subject by a garden historian (Frank Clark) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}