{"id":737,"date":"2009-01-04T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2009-01-04T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:59:58","slug":"the-definition-of-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-definition-of-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The definition of landscape architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I define landscape architecture as the art and science of composing landform, water, vegetation, paving, structures and sky in relation to human needs and aspirations. At different scales the results are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0garden design (typically private outdoor places)<\/li>\n<li>landscape design (typically public outdoor places)<\/li>\n<li>urban design (public, semi-public, community \u00a0and private outdoor spaces)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the six compositional elements are not designed in relation to each other, \u00a0less-good places will result. The objectives of landscape architecture relate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/landscape_theory\/vitruvius\">Vitruvius<\/a>&#8216;s three objectives: Commodity (Utility), Firmness (Technical Quality) and Delight (Aesthetic Quality)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-742\" title=\"ueda-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ueda-copy.jpg\" alt=\"ueda-copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ueda-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ueda-copy-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/landscape_theory\/definitions\">Definitions of landscape architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/landscape_theory\/definitions\">The importance of landscape architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"family-name\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/scottish_national_gallery_of_modern_art\">Ueda Landform &#8211; Scottish Gallery of Modern Art<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0design by Charles Jencks\u00a0(Image courtesy\u00a0<span class=\"given-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/riggott\/\">Matt<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/riggott\/\">\u00a0<\/a><span class=\"family-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/riggott\/\">Riggott<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I define landscape architecture as the art and science of composing landform, water, vegetation, paving, structures and sky in relation to human needs and aspirations. At different scales the results are: \u00a0garden design (typically private outdoor places) landscape design (typically public outdoor places) urban design (public, semi-public, community \u00a0and private outdoor spaces) If the six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}