ABSTRACT
Landscape architectural practices that avoid, sometimes even reject, deliberately and actively, predefined boundaries that may inform a site, are left with landscape as possibility, potential, and speculation. Landscapes without boundaries may escape conventional representations of apparent precision, such as cartographies and aerial photographs, and require sophisticated design methodologies capable of detaching themselves from binary choices of right or wrong, to progressively approach degrees of appropriateness. Inventive modes of representation animate the ground forming a series of dynamic operations where multiple combinations work across a range of appropriate scales that are capable of structuring and empowering the landscape. Activities such as walking, contemplating, searching, collecting, foraging, and performing under the sky are extended into bodily explorations of drawing, modelling, devising, composing, projecting, and performing under the roof. The pressures that studio based field work inevitably generates in its successive steps, analogue techniques are a way of remembering material and topographical conditions, colour, structure, and grain.
