Ecological Processes in Landscape Architecture: Everything Flows, Everything Grows - Katarina Bajc

With a growing consensus on the significance of sustainability, ecological dynamics are becoming inherent to landscape architecture, which opens up new aesthetic possibilities for landscape design. This publication offers examples of how ecological processes can be integrated into landscape architecture practice and roots them in contemporary theories of environmental perception.For a long time, the goal of landscape architecture was to achieve a stable landscape image. Such static perception of nature was immortalised in pastoral landscape paintings of the eighteenth-century English park or glossy photographs of postmodern garden compositions. A pictorial approach required the strict control of ecological processes such as erosion, decay, emergence, and changes in plant populations. These were considered unfavourable to the aesthetic experience of the landscape.

Birkhäuser, 2026
English
Softcover, 264 pages
170mm x 240mm