PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jusuck Koh
TI  - Ecological Design: A Post-Modern Design Paradigm of Holistic Philosophy and Evolutionary Ethic
AID  - 10.3368/lj.1.2.76
DP  - 1982 Sep 21
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 76--84
VI  - 1
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/76.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/76.full
AB  - The author identifies a newly-emerging approach to design as “ecological design” and distinguishes this approach from the reductionistic and deterministic approach in Modern environmental design. He articulates the respective philosophical and ethical propositions of the holistic approach, ecological design, and reductionistic approach. He explains why ecological design is a sounder and more useful approach to contemporary design problems than are the belief systems of the Modern movement and recent “Post-Modernism” in architecture. Building upon the ethical, realistic foundation of “ecological planning” in landscape architecture, the author clarifies general implications of the holistic and evolutionary approach to design education and practice, and claims that ecological design must be distinguished from organic architecture and picturesque landscape architecture on the basis of the social realism and scientific rationale on which ecological design stands.