Specificity: the impossibility of not projecting

Authors

  • Julian Raxworthy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34900/lr.v3i2.44

Abstract

Ultimately, no matter how one may avoid it, and from whatever angle one approaches it, all landscape design is judged in terms of its 'appropriateness'. The inherent subjectivity of any judgement of appropriateness has become the enduring paradox of landscape design practice. Despite this paradox, however, most designers would agree, from an epistemological perspective at least, that the determination of appropriateness resides in how the design is seen to respond to the specificity of the brief (or program) and the site' (the brief 'given' and the site 'received'). The challenge of 'appropriateness' seems to be the location of the 'specific' in the site. The appreciation of the 'specific' is the same as an understanding of that which is 'significant' in a site.

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Published

01-10-1997

How to Cite

Raxworthy, J. . (1997). Specificity: the impossibility of not projecting. Landscape Review, 3(2), 43–50. https://doi.org/10.34900/lr.v3i2.44

Issue

Vol 3, No 2 (1997)

Section

Reflection

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