作为调和过程的设计表达

REPRESENTATION AS A PROCESS OF MEDIATION

我们很难为“景观”找到一个具体而包罗万象的定义。当代语境倾向于将景观视为基于感官感受或文化理解的认知对象。而无论是在物质还是文化层面,对于景观的认知都倚赖于某种调和过程,例如前者多借助图像或模型,后者则在意识层面借助某些信息分类或描述。

The idea of landscape defies a specific and all-embracing definition.Contemporary discourses predominantly interpret it in cognitive terms,understood as perceived by our physical senses and in terms of cultural conventions.The communication of both kinds of understanding requires some process of mediation,either physically by means of an image or a model for example,or consciously by means of classification or description.Visual representation has long been landscape architecture’s primary process of mediation within which ever-changing perceptions of the environment inspire new methods of representation.It in turn gives rise to innovative interventions on the physical landscape.