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Showing 1 to 20 of 497 for “"landscape architecture"”.
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Landscape architecture and gender
… is concerned with the meeting of Gender and Landscape Architectural theory, and aims to populate this (as yet) rare interface that requires urgent attention in discourse and practice. The Study is a research paper supporting the Dissertation Project by locating landscape architecture within …
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Deconstruction in landscape architecture
… possibilities for a rigorous deconstruction in landscape architecture are explored, based largely upon the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, and the architectural work of Bernard Tschumi. Deconstruction is described in its philosophical context and as a form of literary criticism. This …
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Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Development
… examine the role of sustainable development in Landscape Architecture. From reviewing the literature, a position is developed. The position is that Sustainable Development is an important issue for landscape architects and that there are reasons landscape architects have had limited success in …
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A Study of Landscape Architecture Design Methods
How do different methods employed by landscape architects impact the design outcome? This paper identifies and defines design methods in landscape architecture that may be classified as part of four internal and external connections and structures categories. Methods are further examined through …
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Application of expert systems in landscape architecture
… This project explores the application of ESs in landscape architecture by developing a prototype ES and testing implications of its use with designers while working on a hypothetical problem in a studio environment. The development process helps identify the typical difficulties of such an …
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Traditional landscape and contemporary landscape architecture in China
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 98637 Lift date: 2019-03-01T16:37:19Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Regenerative agriculture and landscape architecture: a promising partnership
Agriculture, like landscape architecture, is an interface between human culture and the rest of the ecologic world. The agro-ecological interface has become incredibly damaging, to humans and the rest of the living world. Globalized industrialized agriculture has led to unprecedented human labor …
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The value of public art in landscape architecture
To design spaces for public art has become an increasingly difficult exercise due to the constant shifts in the public's social behaviour and attitude towards art. This is exacerbated by the fact that the discipline of art is so unique and diverse it is almost impossible to find a commonly …
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The Role of Research in Landscape Architecture Practice
The profession of landscape architecture has not managed to sufficiently build a body of solid knowledge through research, which weakens the profession in terms of justifying its practice. In order to investigate why the profession has not built its knowledge-base sufficiently, this dissertation …
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Transparency in theory, discourse, and practice of Landscape Architecture
Transparency within the discipline of landscape architecture surprisingly garners much less attention than transparency in the architecture field. Transparency as a design element has occasional use in landscape architecture, but is often obscured by other design intentions; while transparency as a …
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Assessing the potential of mixed reality for landscape architecture
… reality is not applied in the paper. The landscape architecture professional practitioners have also utilized mixed reality for specific processes, such as expressing the design idea to project participants through virtual reality. However, whether mixed reality could be applied to the …
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Perceptions of landscape function within the field of landscape architecture
Landscape functions are the processes that support life by rendering ecosystem services and goods. Thus, in a time of profound ecological destabilization, our future well-being depends on our ability to preserve, to enhance, and to avoid degrading landscape functions. Landscape architects have the …
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Planning policy and landscape architecture : street design in theory and practice
Recent trends in planning and landscape architecture are moving the two disciplines closer together, yet there persists a lack of awareness of each discipline to the other. Planning’s roots in street design and landscape architecture’s new theory of landscape urbanism, which focuses on …
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Redesigning landscape architecture in higher education: a multimodal social semiotic approach
This investigation is a case study of landscape architectural design education in South Africa. Current forms of landscape architectural education are influenced by Global North perspectives and often, if not consciously, privilege particular ways of meaningmaking, and exclude or marginalise …
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Professional development in landscape architecture: professionalization, geographic trends, and research consumption
By definition, landscape architecture is considered both a “profession and academic discipline” (Evert et al. 2010, 509). However, the status and the legitimacy of landscape architecture as a true discipline has been somewhat contested in the past (Riley 1990, 47). According to Carr-Saunders’s …
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Between nature and artifice : The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)
… cartography, was formed in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979) represented a radical departure from existing practices within the discipline. At this time, NASA was making its first moves towards erecting image …
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Design Education Reconsidered: Faculty Perceptions of Community Engagement in Landscape Architecture
… focuses on the perceptions of faculty members in landscape architecture on community engagement. This research explores the current state of community engagement within landscape architecture and identifies the benefits and barriers that foster or inhibit faculty from using community engagement as …
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A Study of Self-Regulated Learning in Landscape Architecture Design Studios
… behaviors. This study examined SRL in landscape architecture design studios in order to find out how students self-regulate their learning and performance on studio projects. Interviews with landscape architecture students were used to answer the research questions. Study findings …
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