The scenic image stands only as a historical sign, a mere picture, while
the experience of land moves from engagement and change to mere voyeurism...It requires visionary professionals who can look at situations in new and relevant ways and then show to others the range of possiblities. This is why designers draw so much, less for scenic representatio and more for discovery and then conveyance of ideas
The Traditional Danish cultural landscape has lost much of its original symbolic value following the loss of an overall functioning structure. The question is, then, whether or not the Danish landscape, with its infinite history, should (or can) be given a new role and identity.
For instance, the shift from local to global culture afforded by new economies and technologies means that people are becoming more interested in progressive approaches to the design of landscape.
Two things may have to be overcome: One is the conservationism of administrators and land managers, and the other is the modern functionalist zoning approach to landscape planning
Music, art and science were all structured around mathematical harmonies (mathesis), each disclosing the coherency of the universe and embracing the full metaphorical range of measure described above.
Geometry united humanity and nature; it was the secret measure by which God's original creation had been ordered and sustained.
Denis Cosgrove
Geometry united humanity and nature; it was the secret measure by which God's original creation had been ordered and sustained.
Denis Cosgrove

miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2009
Things take time and time takes things: The danish landscape
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