| The primary purpose of doing this project has been to begin a process to train the mind and the eye to 'read' the landscape and not just 'see' it. This project also aims to initiate a process especially for students of architecture and landscape architecture by which the eye and the mind will go beyond the experience of the first emotional response and exchanging 'pleasantries with the landscape'.;One of the aims of doing this project is to develop an additional teaching tool for the landscape architecture and architecture studios.;This study considers the term landscape in a broader sense. It considers buildings, trees, water, paths, connections, open spaces as equally significant. When such a broad based definition becomes acceptable the traditional gap between the profession of architecture and landscape architecture could be bridged. The first step in narrowing this gap is developing a common design vocabulary for the students and professionals of both fields.;The project has been divided into two parts. The first part deals with the concept of space and the design elements that create it. The second part deals with the organizing principles in design, namely axis, symmetry, rhythm, datum, hierarchy and transformation. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.). |
