From spatial form to system and process through pattern making in the landscape: can landscape design contribute to nature restoration?

Abstract

This study presents a scenario in which recent development of landscape design based on modernism and modernist’s works is depicted in conjunction with its possible contribution toward nature restoration. Spatial pattern found in modernist’s works enhanced the designer’s understanding of landscape pattern underlying the land and environment at an extensive scale. In search of solid ground for pattern making, landscape designers further investigated the environmental system and its structure. A morphological approach employed in the discourse of landscape ecology gives a theoretical foundation to those endeavors. Also, the process through which the environmental system functions and is maintained becomes another potential field of design expression in landscape. Detailed studies of several works and p landscape design projects, which have already indicated a direction of development, will promote a productive and creative co-relationship between landscape design and nature restoration.