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Landscape Architecture

Architectural Arts

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

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Medium
Outdoor space shaped with hard, built materials and soft, planted materials 1
Signature Technique
Master planning 1
Place of Origin
United Kingdom 1
Notable Example
The Gardens of Versailles, designed by André Le Nôtre 1
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Isamu Noguchi

Landscape Architecture
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Architecture, Art Forms

Landscape architecture is a design discipline closely allied with architecture, planning outdoor and built environments together.

Land Art, Art Forms

Landscape architecture and land art share a concern with shaping large-scale outdoor terrain, though land art is made as sculpture rather than functional design.

Organic Architecture, Movements

Practitioners

Isamu Noguchi, Artists
Source Wikipedia: Isamu Noguchi
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United Kingdom

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Source Landscape Architecture (Wikipedia)tier 2
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1. Landscape Architecture (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    Landscape architects work on structures and external spaces in the landscape aspect of the design - large or small, urban, suburban and rural, and with "hard" (built) and "soft" (planted) materials, while integrating ecological sustainability.
  • Landscape architecture, History section
    An example is the extensive work by André Le Nôtre for King Louis XIV of France on the Gardens of Versailles.
  • Landscape architecture, History section, term-coining sentence
    The term landscape architecture was invented by Gilbert Laing Meason in 1828, and John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) was instrumental in the adoption of the term landscape architecture by the modern profession.
  • Landscape architecture, Definition section, master plan sentence
    The landscape architect can conceive the overall concept and prepare the master plan, from which detailed design drawings and technical specifications are prepared.
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Wikipedia: Isamu Noguchi
Practitioners: Isamu Noguchi, Lead section
Quote, Practitioners: Isamu Noguchi, Lead section
Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, Noguchi Isamu; Japanese: [noꜜgɯtɕi isamɯ], English: ; November 17, 1904 - December 30, 1988) was an American artist, furniture designer and landscape architect whose career spanned six decades from the 1920s.
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