LANDSCAPE URBANISM KEYS

There has been a recurring trend in architectural and urban planning circles to move away from modern urban planning methods, which were based on rigid plans with absolute premises. Instead, the focus has shifted towards a more processual, coherent, and above all, environmentally and landscape-sensitive approach to territory.

Landscape has become a central theme, shedding its role as a passive backdrop to become an object of design. Thus, landscape, architecture, and urbanism have fused into a single conceptual entity.

In this context, this work emerges as a theoretical reflection on contemporary landscape and its relevance in the design process.

We propose an open, evolving product whose main interest lies in constructing critical perspectives on contemporary landscape, affirming its value as a component of the territory and its design, with the aim of creating built environments that are coherent with our times and our societies.

To achieve this, we suggest the development of an information platform based on the exploration of texts, theoretical reflections, and analyses of specific interventions that we consider particularly significant in understanding the territory as a complex and hybrid material, resulting from the fusion of architecture and landscape, city and countryside, and ultimately, the fusion between the natural and the artificial.

We also propose a landscape map to understand its conceptual structure on a "micro" scale, revealing the conceptual keys or components inherent in constructing the contemporary term, with the expectation of turning them into resources for the design process.

The proposal for this conceptual map is subjective and intentional, as it stems from the construction of a critical perspective on the landscape—within a broad spectrum of possible perspectives—and, of course, it is not intended to be unique or definitive. Its main objective is for each reader to construct their own conceptual map based on the information presented.

Ultimately, we aim to create theoretical material that can be used as a resource in theoretical and propositional considerations, offering a holistic view of contemporary landscape across all project scales.