ABSTRACT
Landscape is ‘an area, as perceived by people’ according to the definition in the European Landscape Convention. 1 But landscape is more than that. As well as being both physical space and mental perception, landscape is increasingly also an arena within which a wide range of different, and often contrasting, academic disciplines from both sides of C.P. Snow's ‘Two Cultures’ divide encounter each other ( Snow, 1959/1993). One of these many disciplines, perhaps one of the few for which the landscape lies at the very centre of its concerns, is landscape architecture.
