The Application Of Minimalist In Garden Design

Since the 1960' s, a landscape design trend in the western landscape design field with the characters of non-imagery,non-theme, simple form, which called minimalist garden, had caused wide attention in the academic and design field.Minimalist garden pursues the extreme simplification in the form, objective, abstract, controls great space by the very few designs element, but to the audience the influence and the impulse actually extremely rapid and direct, simple is revealing complex, pure is mapping mystically. The minimalist garden has fused the classicism,early modernism and minimalism in the landscape, united the simple form and complex meaning of landscape to present lively individuality and strong modern and industrial character.The western modern landscape architecture demonstrated pluralistic inclination with its development. Various kinds of school of arts in modernism offered new sources for the landscape design. As the summary and development of modernism the minimalist art had a profound influence on western landscape architecture and then formed minimalist garden. It 's easy to find that the minimalist landscape's history has the character both from western classical gardens and eastern classical culture. The eastern culture exerts an internal influence on the meaning of minimalist landscape and the western culture affects its external characters directly. The minimalism of contemporary landscape design is a continuance and development of modernism. Apparently, the minimalist landscape is a case in point in continuing and developing the tradition.Through carefully studied Peter Walker's specialized art background and the design experience,the paper elaborated how Peter Walker is did grow from an artistic amateur into the modern garden master as well as his minimalist garden design style formation course.Has promulgated minimalism the vital role which plays in his design profession, has expounded his minimalist garden form origin.The paper achievement is through to the Peter Walker's main design work detailed classified introduction, from different stratification plane,the different angle conducts the analysis research, summarizes the Peter Walker's work main six kind of designs type and the characteristic namely: The abstract multi-systems fold garden, extremely have the Japanese nationality character and the modern minimalist garden style, the earth art work, the constructionism garden, minimalism and the modern garden entity, and the nature and the ecology phase equilibrium design; Eight kind of designs essential factors: Stripe design paving,reshaping hedgerow, megalith, fog fountain, low wall, colored broken stone, metal and Chinese juniper;Main design formal language:Straight line, parallel line, grid, concentric circle; Commonly used plant application form: lonely decoration trees, pruned hedgerow,the moss, pure forest,the border and neat trees.Although many landscape works of our country at present appear minimalism tendency, which mainly be represented on techniques. The real pure and absolute minimalist works and artists are not so many.As we know that the reasons of this situation are various. However those problems are results of particular period of our society. We can believe that with the further development, they can be improved in succession,and the minimalist landscape would have a wonderful future in our country.The creative syncretism of our traditional gardens and the western minimalist landscape is actually the conformity of idea and method.We should get away from the astriction of parochial sectionalism and nationalism, use the evolutive point to treat the traditional gardens and the communion of China and foreign countries objectively, integrate those most lively part of our traditional gardens, the most compatible part of the western minimalist landscape and our country' s actual situation nowadays and the developable space tomorrow, firmly continue and develop the traditional, learn from others with an open mind, and then construct our minimalist landscape' s today and tomorrow.