Introduction

This chapter shows buildings and landscapes in one sweep of vision. Landscape architecture must do what its name implies, it must integrate landscape and architecture. Design, both architectural and landscape, seems most successful when it focuses on reality: the nature and character of the site; the needs, demands, aspirations, attitudes, and resources of the client; and the talent, competence, and inspiration of the designer. Relations between buildings and landscape are symptomatic of relations between people and nature. The desirable or appropriate extent and quality of open space systems within the built environment has been and continues to be controversial. In spite of the moderating impact of the modern movement, people are still conditioned by formal versus informal, architecture versus nature, conflicts which make true landscape architecture impossible. The world tend to cluster for technical, functional, or social reasons, and to grow into multiple-function communities called urbanization.