“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.” Landscape ArchitectureDesign TheoryLandscape Design Book:City as Landscape Source: City as Landscape
“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia.” Garden DesignLandscape ArchitectureLandscape DesignSacred Gardens Book:British Gardens: History, philosophy and design Source: British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history (Geoffrey Jellicoe, Landscape of man)” Landscape Architecture Author:Tom Turner
“To achieve these goals [of making good landscapes}, there is but one necessity: when preparing and approving plans for new places, or spending money on old places, we must look beyond the confines of each and every project. Gazing at these wider horizons, we shall see that development projects are initiated by specialists who have been imprisioned within "closely drawn technical limits" and "narrowly drawn territorial boundaries" (Weddle 1967; vii).” Landscape ArchitectureLandscape Planning Book:Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design Source: Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design
“The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.” ShouldMeanUseProcessSpaceCitiesPrinciplesPlansDesignTheoryDevelopmentProjectsApproachDrawsGardenTraditionTownsArchitecturePlanningObjectivesLandscapeParksHeritageUtilityComprehensiveInvolvingAdaptedGood PlaceFirmnessOpen SpacesDesign ProcessGarden DesignLandscape ArchitectureCity Parks Author:Tom Turner
