GBA Landscape Architectural Design

"Innovation in Composition, Expression, Symbolism, and Function"

0 -starting the website-

1 WELCOME! homepage/1 min

2 Commercial Design 1 min

3 Residential Design 2min

4 Living Complex/ Condos

5 Street Entryways

6 Civic Competitions

7 Parks & Campus

8 Urban Design 1 min open

9 Planting Borders 1 min

[11] NOTES & TEACHING

(a) COURSE LIST

(b) DESIGN THEORY

(c) PROJECTS (allow 1 min to open)

(d) AESTHETICS drafts

Misc teaching drafts

AESTHETICS -- TRI-LEVEL MODEL (context/ whole/ parts):
Aestehtic Essay organized by garden metaphor.
(above): Elevational View -- TRI-LEVEL MODEL OF AESTHETICS (click enlarge)
(above): Plan View: TRI-LEVEL MODEL OF AESTHETICS
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PHILOSOPHIES OF ART -- (Imitation-representation / Expression/ Form-composition, etc):
A. IMITATION THEORY of ART: (1) exact
(2) Modified Representation
(3) Referential
* (evaluation)
Summary of art as imitation: unified theory chart
B. EXPRESSION THEORY OF ART
C. FORMALISM THEORY OF ART
(1) Synergy
(2) Composition Formula
(...diagrammed)
(3) Supplementary Archtypes
(...landscape/ architecture)
(...literary)
(...humor)
(... painting, graphics)
AESTHETICS HISTORY / THEORY (draft notes) please allow for 3-6 min download all 50 pgs:
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AESTHETICS HISTORY (draft reference notes) -click-