ABSTRACT
Landscape architectural criticism is an emerging form of practice. It is evolving from within landscape architecture, and also in distinction from allied fields of criticism such as art and architecture. This chapter gives a brief overview of the history of criticism in landscape architecture, as a means of exploring the different threads. Tracing landscape architecture criticism’s development in professional and academic journals, as well as key books, the chapter plots a path to the point where Landscape Architecture Criticism is a timely milestone. As well as the overall history of criticism in landscape architecture, critique written about particular sites also has a history. The work of Juan Pablo Bonta is proposed as a useful approach for the analysis of bodies of design criticism.
