So as expressed in my blog which was taken from my last project in digital media 'Reflecting' i have taken the plunge to become a Landscape Architecture, and after my first week in the 3rd year i still stand by that i have made the right decision - however that doesn't mean that it isn't still incredibly scary to think of the amount of work i have to do this year.
However I'm starting with a reading which our lectures gave us in the induction; Theory in Landscape Architecture, A Reader. To start with i felt myself back in the first year not having a clue where to start with the denseness of the language used in the introduction. Once getting onto the essays i realise that this was a good way to start the year and get my brain thinking theory again and back into my landscape mind! Not that it really ever goes far.
The first essay was Garrett Eckbo's 'Landscape for Living' (1950) thinking about the title of this text I'm now thinking i didn't gain what i was supposed to from it, i will however go on to explain what i got from it starting with my favourite quote 'design like life, has no limits to development' common sense really but i thought it was a powerful quote and made me think again about what an amazing field landscape design is and how much you can truly express yourself. Design is some thing that will go on forever and will have the constant change - Eckbo spoke about how the theory of this works and how it always a process of development. And then as designers we 'produce an arrangement of forms, colours and texture in space which results in some sort of cumulative effect, good or bad, on those who pass through it.' Again that word space was used making your options even wider and more exciting.
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