ABSTRACT
Literature might be said to be a form of designed writing in the same way that landscape architecture is designed environment or designed space, where design is the act of imagining. Landscape architecture and literature are united by their pregnancy of imagination. Landscape architecture and literature are both disciplines, whereas landscape and text, can be considered forms of communication. There are any number of works of literature that are influenced by particular landscapes and associated with them, whether the landscapes are urban or rural, designed or un-designed, real or imaginary. The notion of landscape as a palimpsest is clearly articulated through the design of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, a collaboration among John Ronan Architects and Reed Hilderbrand, Landscape Architects. Huang Zhouxing's Make-do Garden is a landscape that only exists in literature and a few drawings, below, based on Huang's description, yet it is wonderfully tangible.
