ABSTRACT
The discussion and implementation of code is an undeveloped discourse in the profession of landscape architecture, yet that seemingly arcane world of computation may not differ from other disciplines or techniques, at their nascent origins, which ultimately extended the agency of human societies. Computing or "the computer" is the reader of this story, compiling the words and interpreting the code that forms the narrative. Code and algorithms are discussed in the daily milieu of contemporary culture, remotely related to their original computer science definition. The discussion of "code" as a syntactical language and heuristic process that we push for computational design to become a subject of thought and common language in landscape architecture, to promote new ecological, social, economic, formal, and material design systems in the built environment. Code also provides a range of other definitions and can be used to describe rules or definitions that propose to delineate use or function.
