The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner

The Landscape Imagination: The Collected Essays of James Corner, 1990-2010, 2014

A number of designers and academics, all notable for their innovative approach to landscape architecture, were asked to choose an image that has shaped their landscape imagination over the last thirty years. It could be their own or from another artist or designer. It might have been instrumental in defining the design process of a significant project. It may have been important in suggesting a method or direction for research or practice. Or, it may have had resonance throughout their landscape career. The collection is necessarily heterogeneous. Texts and images together encapsulate a range of particularly landscape architectural considera- tions in content, method, and purpose; a lexicon arising both from looking at images and making them.

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2016

The paper tries to investigate the processes through which landscape Design Thinking evolves through the medium of few case studies/studio exercises. These are our experiments to help discuss the long standing creative engagement & the most aspired Integration of Architecture & Landscape. The understanding of these processes is with an objective that will help critically appraise & justify landscape design beyond face value appreciation. Thus it will help establish the validity of a given or created Environment in response to the built. As a discipline, conventionally landscape has always been thought as an interdependent on Architecture. The paper also tries to outreach this aspect where in landscape distills itself from architecture & attempts to gain identity for itself.

2012

Within the complex scenario of architectural research in recent decades, this study identifies and investigates the common thread that links, transversally compared to different linguistic styles, the theories and proposals around an idea of landscape as a theoretical paradigm through which design experimentation has opened up to new configurations that more effectively reflect the changeable, dynamic and contradictory reality of our era. Seen in this way, the landscape, with its intrinsically interdisciplinary nature, is treated as a research tool and a model of thought which is used insofar, compared to other consolidated models, as it manages more efficiently to represent and synthesize the ever more multiform and articulated nature of the project. By means of this new alliance, architecture has seen the creation of new research paths, new possibilities of expression, new formal categories and new contextual relations that have determined profound changes starting from its fundam...

2021

Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA), Spring 2013 (B. Blanchon-Caillot, K. Gill, K. Jørgensen, B.M. Rinaldi, K. Shannon) pp. 4-5 (ISSN 2164-604X), 2013

2021

The multi-dimensionality of BwN calls for the incorporation of ‘designerly ways of knowing and doing’ from other fields involved in this new trans-disciplinary approach. The transition out of a focus on rational design paradigms towards reflective design paradigms such as those employed in the spatial design disciplines may be a first step in this process. By extension, the knowledge base and design methodologies of BwN may be critically expanded by drawing on ways of knowing and doing in spatial design disciplines such as landscape architecture, which elaborates the agency of the term ‘landscape’ as counterpart to the term ‘nature’. Operative perspectives and related methodologies in this discipline such as perception, anamnesis, multi-scalar thinking, and process design resonate with specific themes in the BwN approach such as design of/with natural processes, integration of functions or layers in the territory and the connection of engineering works to human-social contexts. A se...

Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning, 2016

Weller, Richard and Josephine Neldner, Sara Padgett, Simone Kilbane and Gerard Siero: This paper presents the work of four Doctorate of Philosophy candidates from the discipline of landscape architecture at the University of Western Australia. Each of the four candidates’ theses investigates the potential of landscape architecture to address challenging and complex problems of the twenty first century. The projects all engage in design as research, building on the research paradigm of projective design where the processes of design can be seen as generators of new knowledge. Keywords: Landscape urbanism, projective design research