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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (24/38)
Imagine you’ve taken on a project. A neighborhood council asked that you daylight a stream buried 70 years ago. As social values swing back and forth, the stream once running free, was then contained in a culvert, and now, once again, exposed to the daylight has you answering the three forms of narrative. The practical…
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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (23/38)
Before going any further be aware that there are three types of narratives at play here. First, there is your written narrative. In workshops and classes one participant wrote a narrative of a discussion between two trees as to how they, the trees, and the healing garden in which they are situated, might provide a…
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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (22/38)
If you’ve followed my journey thus far, or better yet actually played with the ideas presented in the previous posts on doing design based on how you learned to read, write, and tell stories, then you are ready for the next phase, how we take what we’re learning and apply it in a process that…
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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (21/38)
At some point in your exploration of this thought-provoking analogy you’re bound to wonder about themes and first impressions. How do you deliver a theme. How do you introduce a first impression. I love Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Landscape Garden” as an analogy for both design characteristics: delivering a first impression and a theme. I…
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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (20/38)
My “discovery” of narrative opened a whole new approach to my understanding of design. While narrative is an entire study unto itself (Chatman, 1980; Aminzadeh et al., 2016), we can, with exploratory studies in sketch books, self-reflective thinking, and critical discussions among groups of students, faculty and practitioners shine a light on our tacit, subconscious,…
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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (19/38)
Before we get into the next phase of Landscape Architecture as Storytelling design process I want to return to my journey. I was so excited with what I was learning by playing with The Analogy; so excited I wanted to share it with other design students and instructors. I got the chance. I shared The…
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A 50-year Journey to Discover a Fun, Comfortable Way to Learn Landscape Architectural Design (18/38)
As lines move through space they inscribe planes: ground planes, vertical planes, overhead planes. Together they confine, enclose, and direct views and movement. As words collect on a page they produce a two dimensional feature called a paragraph which, in increasing detail, expresses sequential messages leading to a story or narrative. In Basic Design the…