LA 1201 Lecture : Landscape Notes
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What is landscape architecture: helps create a more beautiful and healthy environment helps to protect echo system, helps us to demand better things from our government. Fredrick holmes olmsted: central park, should bring together man made things and nature. Must analyze site find ways to treat it and ways to keep man and nature in balance. Art: risk creates liability somebody is responsible make edge very precise and pointed sharpness may attract people windows broke in. Visual texture not our sence of touch. Color easily overwhelms us cant forget about other tings: where does the color come from. Foliage, tree bark, stems, flowers, fruit: principals of composition, repitetion produces a rythem, whats dominate whats subordinate, what gives it unity (not tossed salad, light and shade look at shadow patterns, funstional use of plants in desighn. If you don"t say exactly what it is supposed to be or contractor will do it another way: site engineering.
