A Study On The Visual Form Of Urban Landscape In The Image Age

Now, we call this age as Image Times because of massive expansion of visual media,which makes image become the main type to grasp the world. And city as the important carrier of human civilization, in this age, show us a visual-first “setting”trend.In this background, the article does a systematic scrutiny on urban landscape and visual form, and meanwhile I find the breakthrough point from predecessors’ study on image times and visual culture, then sort out and comprehend urban landscape vision problems.Firstly, this article defining image, image times, visual culture, iconology related concepts, and give a well defined scope for this subject study; Secondly, the author starts from the basic concept of visual form of urban landscape, making a detailed combing and summary for the status quo of the visualization of many aspects of modern city landscape; Thirdly, this article takes Antoni Gaudi,Burle Marx and Martha Schwartz and their works as example, and further explained how the image language translated and expressed in landscape design from the point of image narrativity; Lastly, this article summarize landscape design effective form “setting” based on the contradiction of landscape design under the background of the image age.This study is expected to guide a right direction for landscape design image generalization and the trend of visualization,and hope to induce the landscape design of effective "sets" strategy, to give some reference to evaluate the significance of the landscape pattern.