Looking Past Form to the Past: Reconsidering Modern Landscape Architecture Theory

Authors

  • Ken McCown

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34900/lr.v10i1-2.223

Abstract

This paper re-examines fundamental concepts inherent in Modernist architectural and landscape architectural theory. The author critiques Eco-revelatory theory and Modernist theory using space, transparency, structure, and the sciences versus the humanities comparatively. These ideas illustrate the differences between conceptual theory and physical form, showing Eco-revelatory design to be a truer expression of Modernist theory than mid-twentieth-century design. The author proposes that Eco-revelatory theory and design exist within the continuum of Modernism, and can benefit from the Modernist lexicon. This vocabulary can be valuable for arriving at a set of terms shared with architectural theory. This global theory, when applied to landscape designs and analyses, may yield physical forms highly attuned to local landscapes and buildings.

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Published

01-12-2004

How to Cite

McCown, K. (2004). Looking Past Form to the Past: Reconsidering Modern Landscape Architecture Theory . Landscape Review, 10(1-2), 54–57. https://doi.org/10.34900/lr.v10i1-2.223

Issue

Vol 10, No 1-2 (2004)

Section

Short papers presented at the 2004 CELA

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