Landscape Architecture

The terminology and the definition of landscape architecture has changed. It is still in constant evolution, transforming and adapting to different fields and necessities, both human and environmental. It is a planning and learning discipline, where operators have to deal with every possible issue involved in the process – including the unforeseeable – determined by the space one works with. The outside space, referring to natural processes.

Birth and death. Growth and fall. Seasons. Climate. Amplitude. The angle. The place in space. Meters above sea level.

What kind of space are we dealing with, when we are talking about space?

2D space. A flat space. Constructed by 2 vectors. Visible from above. It describes the space you are working with, when you are drawing a ground plan. Your tools are lines, geometric forms, areas, textures, structures, colours, text, numbers, measures, special characters and much more.

3D space. The space which opens up a room with 3 vectors. It is easy to define this architectural space in relation to a building, as the area which surrounds it.

This conception of landscape architecture, as a planning discipline of its own, emerged during the early 19th century. Whereas previously such tasks were solved by architects. For this reason, landscape architecture was always bound with architecture itself and its own understanding of space in correlation to buildings, as the space in-between.

The perception of landscape architectural space. This space can be perceived as a space constructed around a perceiving subject. One could describe it as a stage. A horizontal space with it's special character. When we move, a whole wall morphs into a concave area, with which we can engage.