ABSTRACT
Core landscape architecture education more broadly involves the study and use of a variety of drawing and modeling techniques to generate visual records of ideas, analyses, and to explore a set of creative processes and workflows. In Land Mosaics, Richard T. T. Forman describes “a rich palette of techniques is used by landscape and regional ecologists. Some, such as remote sensing, geographical information systems, landscape-scale macro-experiments, and spatial modeling, have rapidly expanded professor’s knowledge and horizons.” Reinforcing the necessity for early introduction of such foundational concepts, James Corner states that the process by which ecology and creativity speak are fundamental to the work of landscape architecture. He argues convincingly that ecological comprehension is a fundamental challenge in the training of landscape architects. This challenge to re-center focus on the visual and sensorial qualities of landscape – with borrowed methods of simulation and synthesis from both science and art – offers a persuasive framework and underpinning for the landscape architecture studio.
