"DesignthoughtseminarofKongjianYu"on"hislandscapedesign"

CREATIVETOOLS/AdvancingLandscapes&UrbanDesign

shehasledmanyofthefirm’slargestandmostcomplexprojectsaroundtheworld.

The landscape design education thought is the continuation of traditional Chinese landscape architecture education, it is just from the aesthetic and visual understanding of the associated with the current actual significance.

itisinsyncwithalongtraditionofChineselandscapearchitecture:theredcolour,thedragoncurves,thecompositionofwalkswithplantingandwater

HealsodefinedanewandpoeticvernacularlandscapeincontemporaryChina,whileaddressingissuesofsurvival,suchasfloodcontrol,foodproduction,ecologicalrecovery.

Havingcriticizedthelackofcontext-sensitivelandscapearchitectureinChina,itwasapleasuretofindacontraryexample:theTangheRiverParkRedRibbonproject:

the“poeticvernacular”bestdescribestheDesignexpressionevidencedhere

Acknowledgment Thisbookisacollectionofarticleswrittenbydifferentauthorsinthepastthreeyears.IamthankfultoMaryPaduafromHongKongUniversityforassistanceinputtingthesearticlestogetherandcarryingoutfurtherediting.Mary,whocontributedtwoofthearticles,alsoregularlyhelpesmewithEnglish.Dr.MaltSeluggafromPekingUniversityandTurenscape,hasalsobeenagreatsupportineditingthebook.IamthankfultoSusanJakesfromTimeMagazine,professorAntjeStockmanfromHanoverUniversity,Dr.BirgitLinderfromHongKongUniversity,GarethGeorge...

Myles.H.ThalerMemorialLecture:“TheArtofSurvival:RecoveringLandscapeArchitecture”