Affordance Based Conceptual Framework for Landscape Architecture: Dealing with Change in Fixity and Fixity in Change - Softcover

Eshetu Zeleke, Sinkneh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659301922 ISBN 13: 9783659301926

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Can the theory of landscape architecture, a field characterized by contradictions and inconsistencies, be generalized into a particular framework? Most important, can a theoretical formulation in another discipline provide landscape architecture the conceptual foundation to do so? This is what this work is attempting to do - construct a framework for landscape design and evaluation arguing that affordance theory can provide landscape architecture with a consistent conceptual framework that can integrate all its relevant elements and concerns into a coherent whole. Affordance theory is a relatively recent theory in perceptual psychology proposed by James Gibson. Gibson claims, contrary to earlier perceptual theories, that our environment is meaning laden and, when an organism interacts with the environment as a perceiver, user or designer, it deals with these meanings at the level of ecology and not with physics and geometry. This work is the first of its kind in exploring the application of Gibson's theory in landscape architecture.

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About the Author

A versatile writer and a manager of private printing and publishing company, S E Zeleke (Tao Yuan) explores the deep man-nature relationship in both his fictional and academic works. In his future works, he plans to focus more on cultural landscapes in and around his hometown in Southern Ethiopia as a means of preserving the endangered indigenous cultures.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3659301922
• ISBN 13: 9783659301926
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 188