Dynamic gateway: a thesis in designing landscape with open-ended strategies

Abstract

One of the most significant characters of landscape architecture is that it is a dynamic process rather than a static object. Unlike most architectural and industrial design projects, many landscape projects can not be seen as having final finishing. People can only describe these projects to be temporary conditions in the certain time. The designs of these projects always relate to open-ended strategies. There are two major theoretical approaches addressing open-ended strategic methods in designing urban landscape. One is 'landscape urbanism' which emerged in recent years supported and practiced by designers such as OMA, Field Operations, MVRDV and education groups such as Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania James Corner is the Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, Architecture Association in London. The other is 'landscape as infrastructure' which holds precedents from urban ecological infrastructures and civic processes suggested by theorists such as Kathy Poole, Richard Weller and Gary Strang.