View No. 9 (2018): Transformation in Composition

Rene van der Velde

350 pages

ISBN 978-94-6366-043-3

Published: 2018-06-12

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  • This study enlarges on the notion of composition in landscape architecture. It builds upon the ‘Delft method’, which elaborates composition as a methodological framework from its sister discipline architecture. At the same time takes a critical stance in respect to this framework, informed by recent epistemological developments in landscape architecture such as the site-specificity and process discourses. The notion of composition is examined from a historical and theoretical perspective,...