Landscape Architecture Flashcards
It is the design of outdoor public areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.
Landscaping
It provides colours to the building, and it helps to provide the balance in the height of the building visually. It also helps to save energy by providing the shadow to the building.
Landscaping
refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land
Landscaping
flora
Plants
fauna
Animals
It is the design of outdoor public area
Landscape Architecture
It involves the systematic investigation of existing
social, ecological, and geological conditions and
processes in the landscape. The scope of the profession
includes: urban design; site planning; storm water
management, parks and recreation planning.
Landscaping
A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture is called a
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Landscape architect.
Landscapes can be either…
Formal
Informal
are geometric and symmetrical, with plants and landscape structures precisely spaced and arranged.
Formal Design
make use of more natural-appearing, irregularly placed
plants and structures.
Informal Design
It is primary and plants play a minor role.
Geometric-Structural
plants, rocks, water and earth forms dominate, but there is a clear sense of geometric arrangement.
Natural-Structural
structure dominates, but plants and other natural elements play an important, perhaps nearly equal role
Geometric-Natural
natural elements and materials dominate and there is no obvious human-determined form or structure.
Natural
