ABSTRACT
In this chapter we explore the potential of digital technologies for designing
topography. We begin with a discussion of design explorations and theoretical
writing emerging in architecture during the late twentieth century. At first glance,
this might seem odd for a chapter focusing on topography. However, as will soon
become apparent, the transformative moments in architecture in the 1990s, form
an important foundation for understanding concepts and techniques now being
adopted in landscape architecture. Throughout this chapter these new cross-disci-
plinary concepts will be explained and contextualised within landscape architecture.
This discussion should also be considered in conjunction with the time line of ideas
and technological developments featured in the Introduction.
