Dimensions of Future Landscape Architectural Practices

Abstract

Landscape architectural design practice is explored through the relationship between current landscape construction approaches and the evolving contemporary environment. Techne acknowledges workability and the durable ecological, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions within the implementation of built landscape work over time and can offer an alternative landscape focus to the current design concerns of indeterminacy, openness and flux currently advanced by academics and practitioners. This paper represents landscape design practices based on the ideas of time and techne in the making of landscape architecture developed by the author within the past several years. Opportunities and challenges are outlined and discussed through practicum work of the Center for Technology and Environment (CTE) at Graduate School of Design of Harvard University founded and led by the author. In particular the potential of new site technologies, an emerging range of landscape materials and the nature of regeneration engineering are delineated through site design case studies located globally in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Keywords

Landscape Architecture / Site Construction / Techne / Innovative Landscape Technologies / Engineering Remediation

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2014 Higher Education Press