Articles
The relationship between architecture and landscape architecture – synthesis of fields
Article number
1438_60
Pages
505 – 512
Language
English
Abstract
Seen as a field of multidisciplinarity until recently, landscape architecture now claims its place among the domains of transdisciplinarity.
The scientific discipline of landscape architecture, which is of great complexity, requires, as in the case of macroeconomic phenomena, for example, the ability of specialists to synthesize the conclusions made available by numerous scientific disciplines or fields of knowledge.
To shape the landscape of horticulture, geographers, urban planners, and builders will collaborate with sociologists, architects, urban designers, and even aestheticians.
This vast multidisciplinarity necessarily leads to transforming the field in a transdisciplinary direction.
By incorporating a substantial form of expressiveness, the landscape and landscape architecture work in a complex manner, with architecture generating a necessary form of message that will find different forms of expression.
Throughout history, green spaces have been considered welcome companions to architecture.
In contemporary times, the era of sustainability and sustainable development has generated a new aesthetic, where plants and landscaping become the main actors alongside architecture.
In the case of the new building of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a building designed to be the symbolic ambassador of the international community, we note a new trend of developing the aesthetic message.
Located surrounded by a significant area of green space, the building of the International Criminal Court in The Hague is designed with a facade treated with “vertical green walls that continue” with a vegetation ground floor equipped with plants from the 110 member countries.
The plants and the landscape are the main ingredients in the building’s symbolic message.
The scientific discipline of landscape architecture, which is of great complexity, requires, as in the case of macroeconomic phenomena, for example, the ability of specialists to synthesize the conclusions made available by numerous scientific disciplines or fields of knowledge.
To shape the landscape of horticulture, geographers, urban planners, and builders will collaborate with sociologists, architects, urban designers, and even aestheticians.
This vast multidisciplinarity necessarily leads to transforming the field in a transdisciplinary direction.
By incorporating a substantial form of expressiveness, the landscape and landscape architecture work in a complex manner, with architecture generating a necessary form of message that will find different forms of expression.
Throughout history, green spaces have been considered welcome companions to architecture.
In contemporary times, the era of sustainability and sustainable development has generated a new aesthetic, where plants and landscaping become the main actors alongside architecture.
In the case of the new building of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a building designed to be the symbolic ambassador of the international community, we note a new trend of developing the aesthetic message.
Located surrounded by a significant area of green space, the building of the International Criminal Court in The Hague is designed with a facade treated with “vertical green walls that continue” with a vegetation ground floor equipped with plants from the 110 member countries.
The plants and the landscape are the main ingredients in the building’s symbolic message.
Authors
A.M. Radu
Keywords
landscape architecture, expressiveness of the architectural object, architecture, landscape architecture, and transdisciplinarity
Groups involved
- Division Ornamental Plants
- Division Temperate Tree Fruits
- Division Temperate Tree Nuts
- Division Tropical and Subtropical Fruit and Nuts
- Division Vine and Berry Fruits
- Division Vegetables, Roots and Tubers
- Division Horticulture for Development
- Division Horticulture for Human Health
- Division Landscape and Urban Horticulture
- Division Plant-Environment Interactions in Field Systems
- Division Plant Genetic Resources, Breeding and Biotechnology
- Division Postharvest and Quality Assurance
- Division Precision Horticulture and Engineering
- Division Greenhouse and Indoor Production Horticulture
- Commission Agroecology and Organic Farming Systems
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