ABSTRACT
As Western societies gradually continue to age, whilst literally sitting astride mountains of monuments, the issue of heritage appears as one of primary importance. Directories and catalogues containing sites to be selected for protection should have an evolutionary character, given the multi-facetted identity of landscape. Unfortunately, such an approach appears to be in stark contrast with the current lack of landscape awareness. The identity of a single work of landscape architecture is always hybrid: it is about space, but it is also about the objects which occupy that space. The price to pay for the relative lack of interest in the theory and history of landscape architecture is quite high: unlike the other two cases previously examined, the landscape and the garden, there is no real protection of landscape architecture artefacts, at least not universally recognized in the same way as in mainstream architecture.
