ABSTRACT
Theories of experience and emotion offer critical lenses for landscape architecture. As positions which tend to be subjective, experiential and emotional responses offer particular challenges for critics. In the age of the Internet, where visual media dominate, the experience of landscape can become very abbreviated. For landscape architecture criticism that is focused on experience, how can a critic transcend the tyranny of the visual? From an emotional perspective, there is a tendency to equate successful landscapes with those that produce happiness. How can criticism help in expanding the emotional repertoire? Experience and emotion are often intertwined, as experiences can be productive of emotion, and emotion can elicit different kinds of experience.
