Friday, June 09, 2006

Landscape.is... Therapeutic

For many years now landscape has been acknowledged as having therapeutic influences which people cannot entirely do without. This has resulted in the wide spread creation of inner city parks and open spaces, places that people can relax in and escape. People dont retire to that little flat in the city, they retire to that big house in the country. The physical representation of the freedom of the soul is seen to be in unrestricted space, Place without boundary. For practising Landscape Architects the bulk of work has this as a backbone; making urban spaces suburban, bringing the country to the city. Whilst this might seem restrictive it isn't, Landscape has no rigid precedents, unlike Architecture it has vast and unlimited room for experimentation... Landscape.is... Freedom, Landscape.is... Therapeutic.

Ben Morgan
Photograph: Ben Morgan Landscape Architecture, project one 1st year

No comments: