18th century

"Chinoiserie" refers to the influence of Chinese style and motifs, particularly in the eighteenth century, on European art and decorative arts.*

*Plot- designing your garden, Meredith Kirton, 2005

Land artists-2

+Kim Wilkie
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http://www.kimwilkie.com/pages/projects/ovs/ovs_longwd.html

+Charles Jencks
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http://www.fractal.org/Samenhang-Industrieel-Ontwerpen/Charles-Jencks.htm
http://www.charlesjencks.com/current.html

Land Artists-1

Here I put some images, showing land artists' works.

+Micheal Heizer
-Double Negative
-45 Degrees, 90 Degrees, 180 Degrees, Court of Engineering, Rice University
1984



http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/texas/houston/riceheizer/whole.jpg

+Robert Smithson
-MIRROR TRAIL (ITHACA)
Ithaca, NY
Feb, 1969



http://www.robertsmithson.com/photoworks/mirror-trail-ithaka_300.htm

-SPIRAL JETTY


http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/spiral_jetty.htm

-ASPHALT RUNDOWN
Rome, Italy
Oct, 1969



http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/asphalt.htm

+Mary Miss
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-Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park


http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p%26g/manilow/images/manil55.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p%26g/manilow/manil55.shtml&usg=__NnibyqHngJfgJEFJsZ5n-QtbyfE=&h=217&w=324&sz=24&hl=en&start=4&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=9mnWslF03JWsOM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmary%2Bmiss%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1R2ADFA_enGB402%26tbs%3Disch:1

+Maya Lin
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http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L650mlSJs7s/SvVE7xMuoOI/AAAAAAAAA94/H5CX9xpr2j8/s320/marymiss.jpg&imgrefurl=http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2009/11/women-and-land-art.html&usg=__0XtFp792PmH6qtZ6nakz6WNnlpI=&h=245&w=320&sz=27&hl=en&start=5&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=v8wW4e5o7gyoSM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmary%2Bmiss%2Bland%2Bart%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2ADFA_enGB402%26tbs%3Disch:1

+ Nancy Holt
-Sun tunnel

http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2009/11/women-and-land-art.html

+Agnes Denes
-Wheatfield - A Confrontation, 1982

http://www.digitaldadaism.com/tmp/wheatfield/Wheatfield.jpg

Eighteenth century

Regarding second part of "Landscape of man", by Geoffrey and Susan Jellicole, "all parts of civilised world were in commercial communication". Even plants and designing ideas were travelling east to west, west to east!
I found some interesting links about the effect of chinese garden and Indian architecture in European architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
For example in 1805, Sezincote House was built in Gloucestershire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sezincote_House
It looks like Indian architecture, having onion dome, chattri and guldasta. Chattri in Persian means "like an umbrella".

In Germany, Munich, The Englischer Garten was built in 1789. It's one of the world largest urban public park. It's called English garden because the term refers to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in England from mid 18th cetury to the early 19th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englischer_Garten

Admirals Park- Chelmsford

Drawing/Modelling

If drawing/modelling in design process is about testing and hypothesizing, is it like or unlike scientific method?

Well, I'm not quite sure! In scientific method* some experiments should be done. There should be some observations and measuring.It's said that this method is step by step and in each step, everything should be totally clear and repeatable. You should be able to predict the result. Looks acceptable! There are some hypotheses in one hand and you are gonna have the results and the predictions on the other hand by gathering information and using them in a scientific way.
Let's consider drawing or modelling. Is it possible to limit all aspects of modelling a building or a landscape project in a formula? Although there are many engineering standards for modelling and designing, there is no specific rule to define a creative building. There are always books or magazines talking about the best buildings or masterpieces. Surely there is nothing to wait for. It's about imagination and creation. It's exactly "to infinity and beyond!".
However modelling is based on some procedures and it's not totally conceptual, scientific method is searching for a specific or a group of specific results , to say the least. There is no specific idea for the last model.
By the way, I think drawing is kinda similar to scientific method, simply because it is based on experiment and testing different ideas. But there is no unique result in drawing, as it continues forever. Always there is a possibility to make it better.



*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Coming back!!!

Finally I started studying MA Landscape Architecture, here in Writtle Collge.
I should talk about some aspects of landscape architecture here. I should think about it first!!!
Landscape in thought and image!
I'm thinking!!!!


maybe I come back after drinking a cup of coffee!!!

I should think more!!!