ABSTRACT

This chapter outlines reasons for incorporating writing into landscape architecture curricula, showcases writing-based pedagogy efforts in design programmes, and suggests evidence-based writing-centred activities for project and lecture-based classes. As landscape architecture students must master the discipline’s basics in a relatively short time, writing may be de-emphasised in school. However, incorporating writing into landscape architecture programmes in a planned and structured way offers a multitude of benefits. Incorporating writing into landscape architecture classes can take many forms, from short one-sentence activities to bona fide publishable peer-reviewed research papers. While landscape architecture relies heavily on the visual to convey metaphors and analogies, learning how to form them may be achieved most easily through writing. Forming and mastering metaphors and analogies can be demonstrated through explicit instruction and writing exercises. One aspect of design writing that deserves a special mention, and may benefit from structured instruction, is the forming of metaphors and analogies.