FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Picturesque, Hydraulic Mining, Transcendentalism
Document Summary
Dilemmas of nature and culture: landscape architecture since 1850. Landscape architect, interpretation of complex landscapes and their audiences. Defining the landscape, what is a landscape: painting/photography that depicts scenery, a patch of cultivated ground, the image of that ground, geographic landscape inhabited by an ecosystem, landscapes = built artifacts of culture. In the last 30 years, there have been reactions against a neutral observation of landscape, along with new definitions of the word. A series of systems, natural and synthetic. We make changes in order to achieve particular ends/ambitions. Cultural products and places beyond cultural control. Dilemma: a state of indecision with two alternatives, the choices tend to be mutually exclusive, two states that exist counteractively and require a conciliation between each other. Nature/culture: words full of complexity and ambiguity, a primitive state of existence untouched and uninfluenced by civilization and social limitations. Landscape architecture: about managing the interplay between nature and the built environment.
