ABSTRACT
The ambition to develop design practices responsive to dynamic systems assumes
a major focus for landscape architecture in the late twentieth century. Inspired by
the discourse of Landscape Urbanism and the increasing influence of ecological
thinking, landscape architects began to privilege the performative attributes of
landscape as exemplified in Field Operations’ winning entry for the 2001 Fresh Kills
design competition. We suggest it takes a further decade before the process-driven
ideas so central to Field Operations’ scheme are explored through computational
techniques. In this chapter we focus on this transitional moment where landscape
architects in both practice and teaching begin to uncover the potential of computa-
tional techniques for engaging with fluid and dynamic systems, further encouraged
by the challenging and unpredictable conditions of climate change.
