LAA • 5235Professor Juan Antonio BuenoFlorida Internat.docx

LAA • 5235
Professor Juan Antonio Bueno
Florida International University
School of Architecture
Theory
of Landscape
Architecture
Simon Swaffield, editor. 2002
Theory in Landscape Architecture
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvannia Press
LAA • 5235
book 2
module 6
SIMON
SWAFFIELD
pages ix, 1, 7
ELIZABETH
MEYER
page 21

GARRETT
ECKBO
page 9
J B
JACKSON
page 11
JAMES
CORNER
pages 19, 20
LAWRENCE
HALPRIN
page 43
module 6
HIDEO
SASAKI
page 35
RANDOLPH
HESTER
pages 49
STEVEN
KROG
page 57
LYNCH
& HACK
pages 37, 57

IAN
MCHARG
page 38
SIMON
SWAFFIELD
Preface pages xi, 1, 7
particular topics to consider
Are you instrumental, interpretive, or critical in your approach
to the design process?
Should landscape architecture be idealist or situational?
As your read the book, consider how theory changed
from the first to the second half of the twentieth century.
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2
3
GARRETT
ECKBO
Landscape for Living page 9

On which side of the “formal:informal dichotomy”
should landscape architecture fit?
Should a theory of landscape architecture
be artistic or practical?
How has our understanding of the the landscape
changed since 1950?
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2
3
J B
JACKSON
How to Study Landscape page 11
Is our current concept of space different
than the one that Jackson describes four decades ago?
What do you remember from the landscape of your childhood?

Why is it memorable?
How has our concept of dwelling changed
in the twentieth-first century?
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2
3
JAMES
CORNER
Origins of Theory, Theory in Crisis pages 19, 20
Is the practice of landscape architecture a craft?
Or an existential stance?
Has the modern separation between techne and poiesis
continued in the twentieth-first century?
Should design “reconcile the historical with the contemporary,
the eternal with the momment, the universal with the specific”?
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2

3
ELIZABETH
MEYER
Situating Modern Landscape Archtiecture page 21
Is “bridging, mediating, reconciling”
a feminist or humanist theory of practice?
Do we still overly emphasize the visual
in landscape architectural design?
What is a vitalist landscape?
Are nature and culture binary categories?
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2
3
HIDEO
SASAKI
Design Process page 35

How did landscape design theories change
from the 1930-1950s to the 1960-1970s?
Is the linear research–analysis–synthesis process
the only critical approach to design?
According to Sasaki, what distinguishes
a designer from a technician? Do you agree?
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2
3
LYNCH
& HACK
The Art of Site Planning page 37
Should the design process be looped and cyclical?
If so, how?
Does the physical environment determine,

or not, the quality of our lives?
What has replaced the constructivist and expressionist forms
of the 1960s and 1970s today?
1
2
3
IAN
MCHARG
An Ecological Method page 38
Does ecology emancipates or subjugate
landsape architecture? Regional planning?
Is the ecological method the sine qua non
of landscape architecture? Regional planning?
Is climate–geology–topography–hydrology–flora–fauna
a correct approach to the analysis of the site and its region?
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2

3
LAWRENCE
HALPRIN
The RSVP Cyples page 43
Should design be goal-oriented or process-oriented ?
Is the incorporation of participation, feedback, and
communications a valid approach to design?
Is design a score?
Is improvisation valid in design? If so, when?
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2
3
RANDOLPH
HESTER
Community Design page 49

Do community policies ensure good design?
Is the designer responsible to the client
or to the community?
Should design decisions be made for people, with people,
or by the people? When is a no-design solution appropriate?
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2
3
LYNCH
& HACK
Site Design page 57
Is design the search for forms or for concepts
that satisfy the program?
Is the design process a search for metaphors? If so, for what?
Can design ever be objective?
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2
3
STEVEN
KROG
Creative Risk Taking page 58
Does the design process produce insight?
Should metaphor be eliminated from landscape design?
Is there a relationship between doubt and creativity?
If so, what? Can you doubt your own doubt?
Is the role landscape architecture to be a service to society
or a commentary on society?
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2
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LAA • 5235

Theory
of Landscape
Architecture
LAA • 5235
book 2
ANN WHISTON
SPIRN
page 173
module 9
IAN
MCHARG
page 173
ALLAN
RUFF
page 175
JOHN

LYLE
page 178
TERRY
HARNESS
page 216
module 9
MICHAEL
HOUGH
page 209
GARRY
STRANG
page 220
SIMON
SWAFFIELD
page 227
JOAN
WOODWARD
page 213
IAN
MCHARG
Design with Nature page 173

How are the picturesque and ecological approaches
to landscape planning and design different?
Can the science of ecology be the basis
for the art of design?
Is ecology in landscape architecture
the equivalent of engineering in architecture?
1
2
3
ANN WHISTON
SPIRN
The Granite Garden page 173
Are cities set in a garden world?
What does the author mean by “garden”?
Is urbanity part of nature?
What are the consequences of setting
nature against urbanity and urbanity against nature?

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2
3
ALLAN
RUFF
An Ecological Approach page 175
If the 1970s brought the environmental movement,
what does today bring to landscape architecture?
Is an attitudinal metamorphosis sufficient
to change form in landscape architecture?
Do we design for smell, taste, touch, and sound?
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2
3
JOHN
LYLE

Design for Human Ecosystems page 178
Is it humanist arrogance to try to design an ecosystem?
Can humans participate in ecological processes?
The author addreses the site, structure, and function,
but does the author address change in the landscape?
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2
3
MICHAEL
HOUGH
Principles for Regional Design page 209
Is it “romantic nonsense” to advocate regionalist design?
What contributes the most to placelessness in our world?
How can “small steps” be regional?
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2
3
JOAN
WOODWARD
Signature-Based Landscape Design page 213
What are the “signatures” of the South Florida region?
What are our regional, temporal and spatial patterns?
What are our regional processes?
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2
3
TERRY
HARKNESS
Gardens from Region page 216
What are our landscape themes in South Florida?

Do our designs reflect them?
What are our regional gardens?
Is the landscape a visual experience?
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2
3
GARY
STRANG
Infrastructure as Landscape page 220
What South Florida infrastructure could become catastrophic?
Should the landscape be our regional infrastructure?
Should we address infrastructure as landscape
or landscape as infrastructure in planning and design?
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2
3

SIMON
SWAFFIELD
The Theoretical Terrain of Landscape Architecdture page 227
Are the emphases on formal-functional principles of the
1930–1950s and design process of the 1950–1960s still valid?
Are the emphases on ecology of the 1960–1970s, meaning
of the 1980s, and regionalism of the 1990s still valid today?
Are these principles to be rejected or to be elaborated
in landscape architecture today?
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2
3
LAA • 5235

Theory
of Landscape
Architecture
LAA • 5235
book 2
PATRICK
CONDON
page 84
module 7
LAURIE
OLIN
page 77
PETER
WALKER
page 87
MARC
TREIB
page 89
JELLICOE
& JELLICOE

NAN
FAIRBROTHER
page 82
CATHERINE
HOWETT
page 108
module 7
PETER
JACOBS
pages 116
LAURIE
OLIN
Form, Meaning, and Expression page 77
In the Introduction to Part III, John Simonds is quoted as having
written “What counts is the experience.” Do you agree?
Do forms come from forms?
Are all the forms already in nature?
Is the goal of landscape architecture to express

the relationship between nature and culture?
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2
3
JELLICOE
& JELLICOE
The Landscape of Man page 80
If myth led to humanism in landscape architecture,
what is next?
If our sense of time contracted and of space expanded
in the last century, how has it changed in our century?
Is a “single great idea” possible or desirable
in landscape architecture?
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2
3

NAN
FAIRBROTHER
New Lives, New Landscapes page 82
Is it possible to create beautiful, mature industrial landscapes?
Will they develop their own beauty?
Is the historic preservation movement sufficient?
If not, what is missing?
Is the environmental movement sufficient?
If not, what is missing?
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2
3
PATRICK
CONDON
Cubist Space, Volumetric Space page 84

Is classical or postmodern, volumetric space valid today?
Is modern, cubist space valid today?
What is valid space today?
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2
3
PETER
WALKER
Minimalist Landscape page 87
Is minimalism an appropriate expression in the landscape,
especially in the sensual landscape?
Is a landscape that is not referential or representational
appropriate in site design?
Can minimalism bridge classicism and modernism?
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2
3

MARC
TREIB
Must Landscapes Mean? page 89
Is ecological design a moral imperative?
Is the Neoarchaic, Genius of the Place, Zeitgeist, Vernacular,
or Didactic landscape the appropriate approach to design?
If significance is culturally circumscribed and, ultimately,
personally determined, how do you instill meaning today?
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2
3
CATHERINE
HOWETT
Systems, Signs, and Sensibilities page 108
Are the new ecology, semiotics, or environmental psychology

correct approaches to landscape design? How so?
Are species diversity, structural complexity, and indigenous
vegetation sufficient in landscape design?
Is ecology an appropriate metaphor for the design process?
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2
3
PETER
JACOBS
De/Re/In[form]ing Landscpae page 116
Was ecology the pause that refreshed?
Is landscape of nature or of culture?
Have we escaped homogenization, internationalism, and
functionalism in the twentieth-first century?
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2

3
LAA • 5235
Theory
of Landscape
Architecture
LAA • 5235
book 2
JAMES
CORNER
page 130
module 8
ANN WHISTON
SPIRN

JOHN DIXON
HUNT
page 131
POTTEIGER
PURINTON
page 136
JAMES
CORNER
page 144
module 8
DENIS
COSGROVE
page 165
ELIZABETH
MEYER
page 167
ANN WHISTON
SPIRN
The Language of Landscape page 125
Landscape was and is our dwelling,

but is landscape a language, the first language?
Are emotions sufficient to experience the landscape
or do we need words to do so?
What is problematic with considering the landscape
merely scenery?
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2
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JAMES
CORNER
The Hermeneutic Landscape page 130
Does landscape exist prior to language?
Does the concept of landscape exist prior to language?
How do you emphasize remembrance, renewal,
and transfiguration in the landscape through design?
Is the textual landscape a hermeneutic medium,

both text and site?
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2
3
JOHN DIXON
HUNT
Reading and Writing the Site page 131
Is what we now consider wilderness,
nature or prima natura, or a second nature or altera natura?
Are gardens “a more refined, more acute, and more intricate
expression of human experience”?
Do “forms have significance and content”?
Can verbal accounts be translated into forms?
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2
3

POTTEIGER
PURINTON
Landscape Narratives page 136
Are narratives already implicit in the landscape?
Are meanings in the landscape infinite?
Can “open narratives” lead to meaning and significance
in the landscape?
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JAMES
CORNER
Representation and Landscape page 144
How can the drawing be both an agent and a catalyst
of meaning in landscape architecture?
How are spatiality, temporality, and materiality in landscape

architecture different than in other design professions?
Should the drawing be a metaphor
for the visible and the invisible in the landscape?
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2
3
DENIS
COSGROVE
Landscape as Cultural Product page 165
In our contemporary society,
can we ever be the “insider” in the landscape?
How does technology affect our perception of the landscape?
How has the Information Age change our idea of landscape?
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2
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ELIZABETH
MEYER
The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture page 167
Should landscape interpretations be based
on personal experience as well as historical perpective?
Can the site alone afford meaning and form?
Is idealism masculinist and contextualism feminist?
Does it matter?
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