The Application Of Semiotics In Landscape Design

From the point of the view of semiotics, visual elements bears very abundant meaning and serve as signals, it is the interpretation of these visual signals that people acquire their own understanding of the meaning in design. So the value of the semiotics is to find out the meaning and analyse the structure.The subject tries to analyse the symbol visual system in landscape architecture by using of the theory of semiotics and the method of the structuralism. The author divides the analyse into three parts: the relationship between the symbols in landscape architecture; the relationship between the symbols and the users and or designers; the relationship between the symbol visual system and the meanings.In the end, the author scans the process of the landscape architecture design by using the theory of semiotics.