Theory
Definition
Practitioners
Readings & Definitions
Compare and Contrast
100
a book covering the cognitive theory of landscape preference that contained the dimensions of mystery, complexity, coherence, and legibility. Work by Brown and Itami published in the same year used this theory as the basis for assessing scenic quality in rural landscapes.
What is The Kaplans' Information Processing theory?
100
A body of generalizations & debatable explanations – ideas, beliefs, principles, axioms, concepts, values and models – that define the discipline and explain (inform) its practice.
What is the 3 part definition of Landscape Design Theory?
100
He lived from September 13, 1860 – October 1, 1951. Contributed to many Chicago parks during his lifetime. Columbus Park is the only Chicago park that he designed entirely by himself. His designs were based on natural terrain and native flora.
Who is Jen Jensen?
100
What is James Rose's "Freedom in the Garden"?
Discuss
100
One is the body of knowledge including the theory and the other is the activity of producing designs, plans, and construction documents; constructing and managing landscapes for clients and/or their representatives.
What is the difference between the discipline and the practice of landscape architecture.
200
The theory states that taste in art is "an acquired preference for particular methods of satisfying inborn desires".
Hint: The two desires are for opportunity (prospect) and safety (refuge).
What is Appleton's Prospect & Refuge theory
200
What is Hogarth's line of beauty?
200
Considered America's first female LA, she contributed to the creation of Dumbarton Oaks. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.
Who is Beatrix Ferrand?
200
This research paper had two main components, an analytical study of landscape architectural literature; and a series of in-depth interviews with British landscape practitioners.
What is Ian H. Thompson's paper ECOLOGY COMMUNITY & DELIGHT?
200
One is made of extensive window areas that opened up the hallways and studios to more light, the other focuses on support for the structure.
What is the difference between the curtain wall and the loadbearing wall?
300
This type of theory is based on the concept that humans are a part of — not separate from — nature.
What is Social Ecological Systems theory?
300
This type of landscape is a cultural landscape that evolved through use by the people whose activities or occupancy shaped that landscape. Through social or cultural attitudes of an individual, family or a community, the landscape reflects the physical, biological, and cultural character of those everyday lives.
What is Vernacular Landscape?
300
He Lived from 1822–1903. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. He is well known for his contributions to Central Park in New York.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
300
This journal showed an interest in using new materials, forms inspired by contemporary art practices, and involved patterns of planting and paving that at times bordered on the spectacle. Three landscapes stand out as notable, and yet representative, of the state of American landscape architecture thirty years back.
What is Marc Treib's "Complexity and spectacle"?
300
What is the difference between ecological design and designer ecology?
Discuss
400
This theory identifies public places on neutral ground where people can gather and interact. In contrast to home and work, these places allow people to put aside their concerns and simply enjoy the company and conversation around them.
What is Oldenburg's third place theory?
400
The prevailing character or atmosphere of a place.
In classical Roman religion, it was the protective spirit of a place.
What is genius loci?
400
He lived from 2 September 1912 – 21 February 2004. He was an American landscape architect, who worked in the style of modern architecture. He designed over one-thousand landscape projects including Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis.
Who is Dan Kiley?
400
This represent towering mountain ranges, deep chasms, violent storms and seas, volcanic eruptions or avalanches which, if actually experienced, would be life threatening.
What are Sublime Landscapes?
400
What is the difference between naturalistic and humanistic landscapes?
Discuss
500
This book written in 1968 is a general science of wholeness... The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression, “The whole is more that the sum of its parts” is simply that constitutive characteristics are not explainable from the characteristics of the isolated parts. The characteristics of the complex, therefore, appear as new or emergent
What is Bertalanffy's General systems theory?
500
This practice borrows nature's blueprints, recipes, processes, and ecosystem strategies and then comes up with design principles to solve our own problems.
What is Biomimicry?
500
This American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book "Landscape for Living" also contributed to the creation of “Landscape Design in the Urban Environment”, “Landscape Design in the Rural Environment,” and “Landscape Design in the Primeval Environment” (Pencil Points, now Progressive Architecture, 1938-1939) with the help of his classmates.
Who is Garrett Eckbo?
500
This is an ideal type of landscape that has an artistic appeal, in that it is beautiful but also with some elements of wildness.
What is a picturesque landscape?
500
What's the difference between historicism and the Gaia Hypothesis?
Historicism is the theory that social and cultural phenomena are determined by history.
The Gaia Hypothesis, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.