Landscape Architecture History Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for Landscape Architecture History

Landscape as nature

Promotes a Conservationist View that landscape should be preserved at all cost.

Landscape as habitat

Promotes the view of people and environment interrelationship where people manipulate landscape to harmonize and maintain its bounty.

Landscape as artifact

An anthropomorphic view where landscape is an entity created by people, dominated by technology and addresses human desire for self-expression.

Landscape as history

A complex documentation of natural and human activities that explains and interprets changes to physical elements in relation to the cultures and individuals that created them

Landscape as aesthetic

Emphasis on the artistic quality of landscape features and landscape as visual scene using the language of art.

Axis Mundi

A symbolic center.

Genius Loci

Refers to god.

Otium

The Roman.

Temenos

The Greek.

Locus Amoenus

A realm distinct from its surroundings that symbolizes an idea of paradise.

Bonsai

Meaning cultivation in a pot.

Shakkei

Borrowed landscape incorporated into the pictorial composition of gardens.

Stroll Garden

Followed a clockwise route around an irregularly shaped lake and was laid out with bends and turns in relation to planting and topography.

Chadar

A form utilized in Mughal Empire design.

Parterres de broderie

A design element in French gardens.

Ha-has

A technique of the 18th century landscape garden, used to eliminate visual boundaries.