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The resistance to a broad adoption of responsible landscape design derives in part from the confusion of ethics with aesthetics, that is, equating moral values with beauty—a conflation that hampers the pursuit of a beautiful expression for sustainable landscapes. Beauty results not from ethics, but instead from a skilful interweaving of form, space, proportion, light, and colour, the embrace of seasonal change, growth, a knowledge of vegetation, and a host of other natural processes. Stressing performance or ethics alone abrogates the landscape architect’s responsibility to design truly appealing landscapes.
A potential vehicle for achieving both ethical and aesthetically engaging landscapes is the Japanese mixing of formalities—shin-gyo-so (formal, semiformal, informal)—not by simple juxtaposition, but instead by entwining and embedding one within the other. Having high morals is laudable yet insufficient; one must know a language in order to write poetry.
The resistance to a broad adoption of responsible landscape design derives in part from the confusion of ethics with aesthetics, that is, equating moral values with beauty—a conflation that hampers the pursuit of a beautiful expression for sustainable landscapes. Beauty results not from ethics, but instead from a skilful interweaving of form, space, proportion, light, and colour, the embrace of seasonal change, growth, a knowledge of vegetation, and a host of other natural processes. Stressing performance or ethics alone abrogates the landscape architect’s responsibility to design truly appealing landscapes.
A potential vehicle for achieving both ethical and aesthetically engaging landscapes is the Japanese mixing of formalities—shin-gyo-so (formal, semiformal, informal)—not by simple juxtaposition, but instead by entwining and embedding one within the other. Having high morals is laudable yet insufficient; one must know a language in order to write poetry.
Ethics ≠ Aesthetics
Treib, Marc (author)
Journal of Landscape Architecture ; 13 ; 30-41
2018-05-04
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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