Landscape as a Design Metaphor

Abstract

This work is the result of the analysis of the process of contemporary landscape design from ten appellants aspects which, far from turning into strategies and methods, go towards a distinguished design based on the materiality reached by the proper relativity of the place with the program and the type of user, this is the cultural landscape. These aspects point towards a design for the stimulus of all senses, it is a phenomenological approach that tries to exceed, without denying it, the facticity of the exterior world to reach back, sometimes ingenuously, again with this world, with the illusion of this world in its whole possible expansion of its material and spatial specificity. The raised aspects do direct reference to the text on the phenomenology of architecture, by Holl, Pallasma and Pérez Gómez, (2007), but adapting it and extending it to landscape, using examples of Latin-American proposals to illustrate them. These aspects become present from the space-time relationship subjected to diverse transformation processes to end up by establishing that the transformation and the processes of change are those which allow the development of proposals that refer to landscape from its own daily processes.