LARC 1950 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Venti, Borrowed Scenery, A Safe Place

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Landscape Architecture
• Course: LARC 1950
• Professor: Ben O' Hara

Document Summary

Cultural form in early civilizations from emerging societies to the 6th century bce. Pre historic key ideas: rituals to pacify nature, rituals holistic in nature, relationship between built and natural features, celestial reference points (notes) looking at the five different eras that we looked at. Nature based rituals religious practices revolved around nature. How they brought nature into their world view. Looking at a celestial body and how that relates to us. Pre historic key ideas: axis mundi (notes) axis mundi. How this centering pole is with in many aspects of what we have learned: symbolic line that extends from the sky to the underworld with the earth at its centre. Pre historic key ideas: genius loci, the unique spiritual force inherent in a place (notes) genius loci. The thing that can"t be described, but a unique special force that exists.