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Landscape design, the Glossary

Index Landscape design

Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 36 relations: Agricultural education, André Le Nôtre, Applied arts, Architecture, Beatrix Farrand, Borrowed scenery, Civil engineering, Concrete landscape curbing, Construction management, Culture, Design, Environmental design, Fine art, Garden design, Gardening, Gardens of Versailles, Genius loci, Groundwater recharge, Hardscape, Horticulture, Landscape architect, Landscape architecture, Landscape assessment, Landscape design software, Landscape detailing, Landscape engineering, Landscape Institute, Landscape planning, Landscaping, Native species, Natural resource management, Nature, Softscape, Space in landscape design, Surveying, Sustainability.

  2. Garden design

Agricultural education

Agricultural education is the systematic and organized teaching, instruction and training (theoretical as well as hands-on, real-world fieldwork-based) available to students, farmers or individuals interested in the science, business and technology of agriculture (animal and plant production) as well as the management of land, environment and natural resources.

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André Le Nôtre

André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.

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Applied arts

The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Beatrix Farrand

Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect.

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Borrowed scenery

Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese:; Chinese) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

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Concrete landscape curbing

Concrete landscape curbing (or concrete landscape bordering) is an alternative to plastic or metal landscape edging.

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Construction management

Construction management (CM) aims to control the quality of a project's scope, time, and cost (sometimes referred to as a project management triangle or "triple constraints") to maximize the project owner's satisfaction.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Design

A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system.

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Environmental design

Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Garden design

Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Landscape design and garden design are landscape architecture.

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Gardening

Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space.

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Gardens of Versailles

The Gardens of Versailles (Jardins du château de Versailles) occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of Versailles.

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Genius loci

In classical Roman religion, a genius loci (genii locorum) was the protective spirit of a place.

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Groundwater recharge

Groundwater recharge or deep drainage or deep percolation is a hydrologic process, where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater.

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Hardscape

Hardscape is hard landscape materials in the built environment structures that are incorporated into a landscape.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. Landscape design and Landscape architecture are environmental design.

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Landscape assessment

Landscape assessment is a sub-category of environmental impact assessment (EIA) concerned with quality assessment of the landscape. Landscape design and landscape assessment are landscape architecture.

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Landscape design software

Landscape design software is used by landscape architects, landscape designers and garden designers to create two dimensional to 3 dimensional planting, softworks, groundworks and hardworks plans before constructing a landscape. Landscape design and landscape design software are landscape architecture.

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Landscape detailing

Landscape detailing describes the process of integrating soft and hard landscape materials to create a landscape design.

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Landscape engineering

Landscape engineering is the application of mathematics and science to shape land and waterscapes. Landscape design and Landscape engineering are landscape architecture.

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Landscape Institute

The Landscape Institute (LI) is a UK based professional body for the landscape profession. Landscape design and landscape Institute are landscape architecture.

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Landscape planning

Landscape planning is a branch of landscape architecture. Landscape design and landscape planning are environmental design and landscape architecture.

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Landscaping

Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following. Landscape design and Landscaping are landscape architecture.

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Native species

In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.

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Natural resource management

Natural resource management (NRM) is the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations (stewardship).

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Nature

Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole.

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Softscape

Softscape refers to the live horticultural elements of a landscape.

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Space in landscape design

Space in landscape design refers to theories about the meaning and nature of space as a volume and as an element of design. Landscape design and space in landscape design are environmental design, garden design and landscape architecture.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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See also

Garden design

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_design

Also known as Landscape designer, Landscaping design.