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A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment. Landscape can also mean the objects around you in a building. Example; "I went to the mall, because I heard that the Landscape there is wonderful" or "I love the landscape of this house".
Etymology
The word landscape is from the Dutch word landschap, from land (land, patch, area) and the suffix -schap, corresponding to the English suffix "-ship". The word first appeared in English to describe a painted view of the land.
The uses of landscape
Specific uses of landscape include:
- Landscape art is the depiction of scenery in landscape painting, landscape photography or other media.
- Landscape architecture is the art of planning, designing, and managing public and private landscapes and gardens. Related terms include:
- Landscape design is the design of open space urban or rural areas
- Landscape engineering is the technical aspect of landscape architecture
- Landscape planning is the planning of large scale and/or long term landscape development projects
- Landscape management is the care of man-made or natural landscapes
- Landscape gardening is the practice of designing large scale estate gardens, and is usually applied to the 18th and 19th centuries, and seen as a precursor to landscape architecture.
- Landscape ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that investigates the ecological causes and consequences of spatial pattern, process and change in landscapes.
- Landscape orientation of a rectangular page, painting or other graphic means that the longer axis is horizontal. (So named because landscape paintings usually have this orientation.) When the long axis is vertical, it is called portrait orientation.
- Landscape is a play by Harold Pinter
- Landscape was a British 1980s synthpop band.
- Anthropic landscape is a concept in string theory.
- Cultural landscapes are "combined works of nature and of man." They are illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal *.
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The Harley Museum Goes the Whole Hog
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:29:00 -0400
The Milwaukee motorcycle mecca will showcase Harley-Davidson's history, creating a shrine for bikers
Inside Beijing's National Swimming Center
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:56:00 -0400
A multidisciplinary design team employed an innovative digital process to produce a surprising, highly integrated envelope-and-structure combination
The Ethics of China's Building Boom
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:20:00 -0400
Beijing is booming, with billions of dollars in construction contracts. But what about the human rights records?
MIT News: Architecture
MIT architect Sass puts up a prefab at MoMA
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Larry Sass, assistant professor of computation in the MIT Department of Architecture, is one of five architects featured in a major show this summer at the Museum of Modern Art titled "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling."
Making a splash in Zaragoza
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT-designed building featuring water walls that can be programmed to display patterns and images is being unveiled this week at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain.
Interview with the dean: Adele Santos
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An interview with Dean Adele Santos, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, in which Santos discusses the school's goals and challenges and the role it can play in the future of sustainable cities across the world.
Big Stones - Rob Roy describes modern megalithic creations and the people who are building stone circles today around the world.
Meta Description: [ Earthwood Building School offers workshops, books and videos on stone circles or megaliths, cordwood masonry and earth sheltered housing and other ecologically sustainable building practices. ]
Cart Cemetery - A sculpture park in Chile using old farm-carts as the theme. Artist Ricardo Vivar Lepe explains the concept and methods.
Cyberlandscape - A directory of organisations, magazines and other material related to gardens and landscape.
Meta Description: [ La bibliothèque René Pechère est une bibliothèque spécialisée dans l'art des jardins et dans le paysage, The library René Pechère is a library specialized in the art of gardens and in the landscape. ]
Enlibra Guide Index - A web guide to environmental resources.
Europe Green Heritage - Professional: associations, virtual galleries, on-line information about gardens and landscape.
Meta Description: [ Un site traitant du Patrimoine Vert, a site talking about our Green Heritage. Ce site traite des paysages, des jardins, du patrimoine, des espaces verts et est destiné a des professionnels comme aux amateurs. This site speak about landscapes, gardens, patrimony, green spaces and it is focused fo... ]
European Landscape Architecture Network - Informal network for landscape architecture professionals, educators, students and graduates.
Meta Description: [ Informal network open to everyone with an interest in European landscape architecture, whether as professionals, educators or as students and graduates. ]
European Landscape Architecture News - French and English language information on landscape architecture and related issues. Includes listings of events and calls for tender.
Meta Description: [ Revue électronique d'information sur l'architecture des jardins et du paysage en Europe / On line magazine of News and Informations on Garden and Landscape Architecture in Europe ]
Landscape Direct - Directory of products and services for the landscape architect and the general public. Index broken down into categories and subcategories covering all areas of the landscaping industry.
Meta Description: [ Find property for sale and rent accross the USA ]
Landscape Information Hub - Articles, links and discussion for UK landscape architects, garden designers, planners, lecturers, and university students. Hosted by the University of Greenwich.
Meta Description: [ Articles, links, discussion and CAD tutorials for landscape architects,
garden designers, planners, lecturers, and university students ]
LE:Notre - Thematic network in landscape education and research in Europe. Includes details of participating schools, and briefs for various working groups.
Meta Description: [ European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools ]
MAP21 - An educational website on sustainable urban environmental issues, with case studies and tutorials.
Principles of Landscape Design - Dewayne L. Ingram's illustrated introduction is Circular 536, University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
The World's Most Beautiful Landscapes - Advice from Lotf on landscape design. Includes landscape construction techniques, examples of features, guides to plants, weeds and beneficial insects, and a climate zone map of North America.
Meta Description: [ The Worlds Most Beautiful Landscapes,the worlds most beautiful landscapes ]
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