ABSTRACT
BORN OUT OF a passionate desire to improve design quality and a
recognition that this can only happen through education, the main premise
of this book is that a radical redefinition of the relationship between
the senses and intelligence is long overdue. Written primarily from my
perspective as an experienced teacher and practitioner of landscape
architecture, the problems are not specific to this discipline alone, but are
equally relevant to architecture, urban design and other art and design
disciplines, as well as philosophy, aesthetics and education more generally.
Deliberately crisscrossing the carefully demarcated boundaries and borders
between philosophy, theory and practice, it aims to demonstrate the very
real practical consequences of philosophical ideas and the philosophical
