ABSTRACT
The section as we know it-or the elevation for that matter-is relatively new to landscape architecture. Vitruvius alludes to complicit relationships of constructed and natural forms in the Ten Books on Architecture. Despite obvious demonstration of spatial and material understanding, structures were not borne of sophisticated scaled drawings until the early Medieval age. Before that time, buildings worthy of foresight were planned and laid out, relying on the mastery of artisans and craftsmen. Landscape architecture followed a similar trajectory in the development of design documents during the Renaissance, most dramatically with André Le Nôtre’s creation of a complicated and synthesized landscape for Louis XIV.
