{"id":39,"date":"2008-08-15T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-08-15T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T09:20:24","slug":"context-sensitive-landscape-architecture-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/context-sensitive-landscape-architecture-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Context-sensitive landscape architecture in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tange<\/a><\/p>\n

Having criticized the lack of context-sensitive landscape architecture in China<\/a>, it was a pleasure to find a contrary example: the Tanghe River Park Red Ribbon<\/a> project:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. it is beautiful<\/li>\n
  2. it is undeniably of its own time<\/li>\n
  3. it is in sync with a long tradition of Chinese landscape architecture: the red colour, the dragon curves, the composition of walks with planting and water<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So: well done to Professor Kongjian Yu of Turenscape \u4fde\u5b54\u575a\u6559\u6388\u571f\u4eba<\/a>!<\/p>\n

    Old China had elegant concubines with bound feet strolling in lang corridors. New China can have fleet-of-foot girls bursting with energy as they race through the urban landscape.<\/p>\n

    Context-sensitive design is a problem for every country – or rather, one should say, for every region. Samuel Johnson remarked, on <\/span>April 7th 1775, that patriotism is “the last refuge of a scoundrel”. Little did he know how nationalism was going to ravage civilization in the next two centuries. For landscape architecture, it is not so much that it <\/span>should be “Chinese” in China as that it should be regional: there should be different approaches in <\/span>Jiangsu, Guangdong and Xinjiang, relating to culture, climate, history, vegetation, geology, hydrology and habits concerning the social life of outdoor space. There can be no part of the world with such a severe shortage of landscape architects as China.<\/p>\n

    See also: landscape architecture competition for Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China 2009-2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Having criticized the lack of context-sensitive landscape architecture in China, it was a pleasure to find a contrary example: the Tanghe River Park Red Ribbon project: it is beautiful it is undeniably of its own time it is in sync with a long tradition of Chinese landscape architecture: the red colour, the dragon curves, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,21],"tags":[42,227,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}