Landscapes are representations of a range of possible ways of life, at the same time people may interpret landscapes in a variety of ways, ascribing different meanings to the same landscape and expressing these through ...

New Zealand's 'Clean and Green' image of nature and landscape has been naturalised into the collective psyche of New Zealanders, and is continually being promoted to tourists and visitors. There is, however, a tension in ...

Shelley Egoz's dialogue with conventional and organic farmers confirms landscape types correlate with paradigms. Landscape architects engage in enhancing and creating environments for communities. One of the concerns is ...

One of the challenges of contemporary landscape architecture is the globalisation of place. Nowhere is the threat of homogenisation more apparent than in places vulnerable to change, where the potential loss of heritage fabric ...

Tensions between wanting to retain a landscape in order to maintain the richness of a traditional lifestyle, set against pressure for landscape change to sustain economic viability are common in many parts of the world. This ...

Shelley Egoz, landscape architect, considers whether the Baha', World Centre gardens, Haifa, Israel is symbolic of the religion's relationship with nature. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizen, is the ...

Professor Jorgen Primdahl is a landscape architect, from Copenhagen. He spent nine months in New Zealand from September 2002 to June 2003 as guest of the Landscape Architecture Group at Lincoln University and was funded ...

Few historical events generate such emotion as the Holocaust. The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel houses a fitting tribute to the victims of that terrible period, blending form with function in a symbolic gesture ...

While vernacular refers to locality and native context, landscape tastes and preferences for forms or styles of landscapes have historically been influenced by outside forces. Aesthetic attitudes towards particular landscapes ...

In the past two decades academic interest in, and discussion of, identity and place mainly arose in the context of globalisation, its drive to homogenise culture and the role architecture may play in resisting the negative ...