Talk:Space in landscape design

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This article has much merit yet it's written somewhat like a Theory of Space in Landscape Design 101 submission. The key aspect of my grading of such a submission is that it lacks any critique. The end sentence is particularly powerful: space can be seen as its own volume with undeniable importance as a design tool. In contemporary design, it is considered a palpable, lived phenomenon that contributes to our perception and experience of the world in subtle but often intentional ways.

My only comment would be that space as its own volume is not an exclusively contemporized understanding, may I cite as an example, within stone gardens from the Muromachi period (1333-1567) in Japan, wherein abstract styles of expression came to the fore, some mysterious form of covert relatedness between the stones is palpable; they appear to be simultaneously separate but ‘speaking’ to each other. But beyond those seen aspects of this relatedness- balance and counterbalance, there is perhaps more importantly that which is unseen, concealed or omitted, yet none the less understood. Undoubtedly as important as what is seen, but yet mysterious. So, for example, at Ryoanji hojo south garden, Kyoto, where the abbreviation of nature is powerfully understood, the arrangement of stones is such that the viewer cannot see all of them simultaneously, and the spaces between the stones intimate an unseen structure. Yet certainly there is a ‘conversation’ between the stones, at once focused but without force. It epitomizes the concept of koan : a Zen Buddhist mystery that frees the mind from conceptualizing.147.47.11.202 (talk) 02:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I also think we could add more historical facts in other places, like Andalusia, Spain, and Noth African countries. What do you think?— Ne55rine10 (talk) 23:16, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]