Understanding and Feeling Landscape Architecture

Year 2025, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 44 - 50, 31.07.2025

Banu Bekci

Abstract

The professional discipline of landscape architecture preserves the advantages offered by its natural science and spatial analysis skills, and protects both ecosystems and landscape ecology by creating areas with new spatial qualities within the landscape design subjects, and also by addressing current landscape issues, defining the characteristics of landscapes and supporting the use of living materials. In this context, scientific approaches towards regional landscape planning areas will be developed and the support given to landscape designs will be facilitated. Similarly, the design processes carried out in landscape architecture education were also included in the study, and the processes were emphasized. Analysis-synthesis in landscape design; conceptual approach-current situation and planning-design processes are other elements that are addressed. What is important here is to examine how spatial solutions are managed in the design process before, during and after design, by considering the past and present. This study, which offers a rather limited but important perspective on the characteristics and basic elements of landscape to students receiving landscape education, aims to support the teaching process. In this context, it is aimed to define academic quality standards by developing a common theory and method based on the knowledge of landscape architecture and in a sustainable development.

Keywords

Landscape architecture , Education , Art , Landscape design , Design process

Ethical Statement

DOES NOT CONTAIN AN ETHICAL VIOLATION.

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