RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 LandSCAPES: A Typology of Approaches to Landscape Architecture
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 37
OP 53
DO 10.3368/lj.22.1.37
VO 22
IS 1
A1 Katherine Crewe
A1 Ann Forsyth
YR 2003
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/22/1/37.abstract
AB This paper presents a typology or classification of six landscape architecture approaches or theories summarized by the acronym landSCAPES:1. S design as Synthesis2. C Cultivated expression3. A landscape Analysis4. P Plural design5. E Ecological design6. S Spiritual landscapesThese categories have distinctive approaches to landscape architecture on eight dimensions: (1) its goals, (2) the process used in design or analysis; (3) main clients or audiences; (4) the scale of concern; (5) intellectual or knowledge base; (6) ethical approach; (7) relation to the natural world; and (8) the approach’s analysis of power relations or the larger role of landscape architecture in society. By classifying approaches and thinking about such classifications, landscape architects can reflect upon and debate dimensions of the profession that are too often implicit and invisible.