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.

(Keynote Speech delivered at the 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting and 43rd IFLA World Congress, Minneapolis, USA, October 7, 2006. Reprinted ( with extensive editing), from Conference Speaker Summaries.)

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”