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INTRODUCTION TO

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Belete H. Wednesday, 7 November 2018


What is Architecture?
What is Landscape Architecture?
How is landscape architecture
different from ‘building’ architecture?
What is Architecture?
Architecture is the art and science
of designing and constructing
buildings.
What is Landscape Architecture?
“The profession that applies aesthetic and scientific
principles to the design, planning, analysis and management
of both natural and built environments”

IFLA/UNESCO Charter for Landscape Architectural Education


http://iflaonline.org/wp‐ content/uploads/2014/11/IFLA‐ Charter‐ for‐ Landscape‐
Architectural‐ Education‐ Revised‐ 2012.pdf
What is Landscape Architecture?
“Landscape architecture combines environment and design,
art and science. It is about every thing outside the front
door, both urban and rural, at the interface between people
and natural systems.”
International Federation of Landscape Architects(IFLA)
http://iflaonline.org/about/
How is landscape architecture
different from ‘building’ architecture?
• Natural processes
• Working with living organisms (dynamic change, subject to
pests and diseases)
• The fourth dimension of time(seasonality, succession,
maintenance need, fast/slow growing species, species
with a short/long life span, change overtime)
END OF CLASS

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