Study On Landscape Architecture Artistic View Of Richard Haag

Richard Haag, who is a famous United States landscape architect, has devoted his whole life to the advancement of landscape architecture and education, and twice received President’s Award for Design Excellence from American Society of Landscape Architects. In addition, Haag’s personality and unique style of landscape architecture design have a profound influence on many generations of American architectural students at that time, which also leads to the appearance of numbers of outstanding professional talents. However, currently there are not too many researches about his works, especially his artistic value of landscape. This paper will attempts to analyze the different periods of Richard Haag in representative works design concepts, methods and landscape effects, and by means of the results of studies related disciplines, multi-angle analysis to explore the concept of garden art history of its formation characteristics designed to provide a reference for future landscape designers landscape design, landscape construction to provide theoretical support for our city.Due to diversified influences of various modern arts, it is hard to classify Richard Haag’s works as a specific or fixed style, but it is certain that his work has been affected by natural ecological ideology as dominant, and influenced by modernism, earth art and the Japanese Zen garden ideas. The development of his landscape value could possibly be divided into three phases:the accumulation, maturity and adjustment period of garden art concept, Garden art is affected by social environment, aesthetic and artistic ideological trends in different periods.(1) In the beginning, Richard Haag’s value was mainly affected by modernism and zen thoughts, get rid of the shackles from traditional garden, advocate functional requirements, pay attention to space layout, and thinking of the environment. At this point the work seeks to inheritance and innovation, use new material to reflect modern characteristics, science and technology. pursuit of the beauty of "empty" the zen of artistic conception.(2) Richard haag mature artistic value is mainly manifested in ecological and Earth Art and other design trend. His design based on the in-depth cultural history to understand, will work completely natural surrounding, rooted in the nature and the pursuit of man and nature, history, city and the universe interdependence.Use the metaphor, narrative and other techniques to blend with art form, functional requirements and spirit of the place.each work are showing their own unique artistic charm.(3) Richard haag artistic view in adjustment period has been freed from the bondage from design ideas and traditional garden art, and become more emotional, more biased in favor of intuitive design, To maintain balance in nature and culture. Turn to thinking about life, nature and the universe. At this time haag’s work design is more bold, try to fused traditional garden and the fusion of modern civilization, to create a Garden of Eden.Richard Haag has been passionate about nature in his whole life, and has always been able to perceive the information and inspiration among natural environment, creating a suitable artistic structure. In other words, Richard is a global master of landscape architecture who explores real principles from practices.