LARCH 060

Tuesday, January 12th, 1999
Announcements: none

Lecture notes:

Landscape Architecture Defined:

Pre 1977:

• Dealt with arts and science
• Arranging land with spaces and objects
• Safe, efficient, healthful, pleasant use

1977:

• Dealt with arts and science
• Professional activites
• Designs of outdoor places and spaces
• Planning land areas
• Conservation of natural resources
• Useful, pleasant, safe living environment

1983:

• Artistic and scientific principles
• Research, design, and management of natural and built environment
• Creative and technical skills
• Scientific, political, and cultural knowledge
• Planned arrangement of natural and constructed elements of land
• Concern for stewardship and conservation
• Useful, safe, aesthetic, enjoyable environment

Other factors of Landscape Architecture:

• Preservation, development and enhancement
• Investigation, selection, and allocation of land and water
• Feasability studies
• Formulation of planning and design criteria
• Master planning
• Site planning, grading, irrigation and drainage
• Cost estimates and reports
• Collaboration of road, bridge, and structure design