Rhys Williams
Lecturer, ESALA
The University of Edinburgh
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Teaching
Disseminating Landscape Architectural Specificity on the Global Stage
How effectively do representations of built landscape architecture convey the ‘specificity’ of a given project? It is the intention of this paper to initiate a discussion on this topic. This is explored from the perspective of a built work’s representation in physical publications disseminated among a professional audience. It involves considering how a project is represented in terms of its landscape architectural specificity: its extensiveness, propensity for change and systemic definition. Understood on this basis, landscapes, both existing and proposed, defy reduction to a single point in time and space. In contrast, this paper finds projects regularly depicted as formal, static and discrete entities. It is argued that such depictions are predicated on the use of received methods that are ineffective at registering the specificity of landscape architecture...
