Brown Bauhaus Landscape Flashcards
(50 cards)
A general term referring to the identification implementation of strategies that optimize landscape potential
Landscape planning
The natural function of landscapes to replenish and recreate their elements, interrelationships, health, and productivity
Landscape regeneration
The ability of a landscape (or a planning or design decision) to sustain the carrying capacity of the system of which it is a part, without additional intervention and without resource depletion or system degradation
Sustainability
Point-in-time expression of ecological, technology, and cultural processes
Landscape
An oasis-like ribbon of green vegetation, often canopied, that only exists near rivers, streams, or other watercourses
Bosque
The historically oriental art of dwarfing trees by careful root and stem pruning coupled with root restriction. The term is from the Japanese for “potted plant”, because such trees are often kept in containers.
Bonsai
Having foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year or through more than one growing season
Evergreen
Any of various predominantly evergreen, cone-bearing trees, as pine, fir, hemlock, and spruce
Coniferous
A small roofed outbuilding erected for outdoor dining and entertaining, often octagonal, with open, screened, or latticework
Gazebo
The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants
Horticulture
To combine, blend, or unite gradually by stages so as to blur identity or distinctions
Merge
A whimsical or extravagant structure built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to a view or commemorate a person or event
Folly
A small, often ornamental building in a garden
Pavilion
A plant that lives for an indefinite period of time
Perennial
Refers to a plant that originated in another region and is not native to the area in which it is currently located. Most often used in connection with tropical plants grown indoors or in greenhouses
Exotic
The rhythm of day and night (light and darkness) greatly affects landscape perception and design
Diurnal rhythm
A general term that refers to modifications to an existing landform to achieve drainage, cause water to flow away from buildings and site-use areas, create visual effects, and other reasons
Grading
A mental construct that emerges from characteristics of a setting, their interrelationships, and the associations they evoke. Places with a strong sense said to have high placeness, are usually able to be recalled over long periods of time.
Sense of place
Identifying the design opportunities and constraints specific to a given site
Site analysis
Communities that sustain themselves within depleting environmental or human resources, and without degrading environmental or human systems. These communities sustain the person-environment system, provide residents with a sense of belonging to viable living communities, and play a major role in the health of the physical, ecological, and human environment.
Sustainable communities
An ornamental arrangement of flowerbeds of different shapes and sizes
Parterre
A plant native to the locale in question and is sometimes allowed to co-exist with lawn grass, ground covers, or garden plants
Indigenous plant
A concept developed by bio-geographers, of a global system of patterns of flora, fauna, and ecological performance boundaries
Biome
The condition where landform, trees, or other conditions shield an area from the wind
Windshadow
