On Methodology Of Goal-System-Oriented Landscape Architecture Programming

On the basis of the investigations of architecture programming and tourist scenic programming, the paper tries, in accordance with the characteristics of Landscape Architecture, to clarify the concept of "landscape architecture programming" and analyze its importance. Through studying the practices of landscape design, the author investigates the methods applied in landscape architecture programming, puts forward the contents and procedures of goal-system-oriented landscape architecture programming, and further inquires the basic theories and related questions. The paper focuses on "design thinking" and "design methodology" with its aim to extend the scope of landscape architecture education and draw public attention to the possibility of a new field of landscape architecture education. In the mean time, the paper is intended to supply a theory or a method for the people engaging in landscape architecture programming.This paper is an exploratory research, in which the author adopts both horizontal comparison (between architecture programming, tourist scenic spots programming and landscape architecture programming) and longitudinal exploration (the development of Landscape Architecture and its system). Through studying a large collection of theories about programming, landscape architecture design and thinking methodology, the author keeps good track of the latest developments in related fields and analyzes the existing problems, and lastly, provides appropriate solutions.The paper emphasizes the importance of landscape architecture programming and provides a new way, namely, goal-system-oriented landscape architecture programming. The author believes that only when administrative departments, companies and landscape architects all attach importance to landscape architecture programming, can the quality of landscape architecture design keep improving. In addition, educational system should also bring landscape architecture programming into the system of Landscape Architecture.The paper has7chapters, divided into4parts. The first part "Introduction" provides the definitions of some related concepts and analyzes their differences and connections. The second part, including chapter2(the goal-systems of landscape architecture programming), chapter3(the contents and procedures of goal-system-oriented landscape architecture programming), chapter4(the basic theory of landscape architecture programming) and chapter5(the related questions of landscape architecture programming), is the main body, which deals with the methods of landscape architecture programming and constructing the theory system of landscape architecture programming. The third part (chapter6) is case study, which demonstrates how the method of goal-system-oriented landscape architecture programming is applied to practice. The last part Conclusion puts forward the main viewpoints and innovation points in the whole paper, and, at the same time, makes an analysis of the future developments of landscape architecture programming.