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Landscape Architecture Overview and Roles

This document provides an overview of landscape architecture. It begins by defining landscape as anywhere outdoors and explains that landscape architects shape cities, towns, and countryside. Landscape architecture involves managing the physical world and natural systems. It combines art and science, using elements like line and shape to create designs that also understand natural systems. Landscape architects work in many places, such as schools, parks, streets, Olympic villages, public squares, waterfronts, national parks, forests, historic areas, factories, and new urban developments. They study, plan, design and manage spaces that are sustainable and aesthetically pleasing while helping to shape the earth. Spaces in landscape architecture can be areas for activities or enclosures, and take different forms inspired

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Landscape Architecture Overview and Roles

This document provides an overview of landscape architecture. It begins by defining landscape as anywhere outdoors and explains that landscape architects shape cities, towns, and countryside. Landscape architecture involves managing the physical world and natural systems. It combines art and science, using elements like line and shape to create designs that also understand natural systems. Landscape architects work in many places, such as schools, parks, streets, Olympic villages, public squares, waterfronts, national parks, forests, historic areas, factories, and new urban developments. They study, plan, design and manage spaces that are sustainable and aesthetically pleasing while helping to shape the earth. Spaces in landscape architecture can be areas for activities or enclosures, and take different forms inspired

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|landscape | public spaces |streetscape|

by : normah sulaiman

What is Landscape??

Landscape is anywhere and everywhere outdoors, and landscape architects are shaping the face of earth across cities, towns and countryside alike.

Landscape Architecture??

Landscape Architecture involves shaping and managing the physical world and the natural systems that we inhabit
Context is social, cultural, environment and historical, amongst other consideration.

Landscape combines art and science to make places. The art provides vision for landscape, using drawings, models, computer imaging and text. The elements of design, such as line, shape, texture and colour are used to create these images, and the process allows the designer to both communicate with an audience and to visualize the site in order to act upon it. The science includes understanding of natural systems, including geology, soils, plants, topography and hydrology.

Where do landscape architect work?

NOT ANYMORE Backyard?

everyday places
schoolyards, parks, streets

monumental places
Olympic campuses, grand public squares, waterfront developments

play places
resorts, golf courses, playgrounds or theme parks

natural places
national parks, wetlands, forest, environmental preserves,

historic places
historic monuments, heritage landscapes, historic urban areas

additional reading on these places


Contemplative places community garden, storm water management, agricultural lands Industrial places factories and industrial development, mining and mine reclamation, reservoirs Travel places highways, transportation, corridors and structures, bridges The entire place new towns, urban regeneration and housing projects.

Homework for Wednesday


Contemplative places Industrial places Travel places The entire place : new urban planning

Compile images of the above topics in 2 A4. Print and submit it on Wednesday 15.06.2011

Role of Landscape Architect


Profession is relatively new the architectures includes architecture, landscape arch, interior arch, urban design and urban planning Most projects requires a team from all area of architectures It combines social, economic, environmental, and cultural perspectives. Study, plan, design and manage spaces which are both sustainable and visually pleasing Help shape the earth and the face of the future

Spaces in Landscape Architecture

Spaces can be defined as -An area of land enclosed, defined or adopted by people for human purposes -A medium and concept of landscape architecture -A place for outdoor activities -An enclosure -The opposite of form or mass

Form of Spaces
Interpretation of existing site forms Geometry Methaphor Symbolism Abstraction and use of natural forms Archetypes Vernacular Historic paradigms

understanding spaces through the historical timeline

Beginning of agriculture and Neolithic age

Settlement at Skara Brae, Scotland

The Ziggurat of Ur, Sumer, Mesopotamia

c10, 000BCE

c7,000BCE

C3,000 BCE

C2,600 -2,500 BCE

The 1st Urban centre @ Catalhuyuk, Turkey

The Pyramid at Giza, Egypt

history and ideas

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England

The Birth of Alexander the Great

C3,100 1900 BCE

C540 BCE

350 BCE

0 CE

Founding of Persepolis, Persia

Birth of Jesus Christ

the ancient world

the ancient world

middle ages

middle ages

renaissance + baroque

france + italy

symbolic garden

symbolic garden

english landscape

the east ;

th 19

century

th europe;19

century

th europe;19

century

th europe;19

century

new city ;20

th

century

postmodernism

postmodernism

millennial

millennial

QUIZ NEXT MONDAY TH JUNE 2011 20 Garden Of Kuala Lumpur Do a RESEARCH + READING
Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, KL Taman Tasik Perdana, KL Sentul Park, KL KLCC Park, KL

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