ABSTRACT
Flipping through the chapters of “Portuguese Landscape Architecture Education, Heritage and Research: 80 Years of History” is to be transported through the fundamentals of ecological thinking, which is here considered as the basis of Landscape Architecture education and a powerful tool of Landscape Architecture practice. The consolidation of research lines specifically related to landscape design, planning and management is unravelled over the course of the chapters, showing a clear and enmeshed connection between educational and professional activities, furthermore elucidating how Portuguese Landscape Architecture is at the forefront of the theory and methods specific to the discipline, namely in the fields of sustainability, resilience and interdisciplinarity applied to the architecture of complex landscape systems. It is a book that uses the past to explore the present and prospect the future. It is the celebration of an enriching dynamic between intellectual heritage and contemporary thought whose outreach in results, reflections, criticisms, challenges or prospects goes beyond the exclusive scope of the Landscape Architecture discipline.
