The Study On The Design Method And The Thoughts Of Landscape Architect Kathryn Gustafson

In this paper, Kathryn Gustafson is one of the most significant Landscape Architect in the world. Kathryn Gustafson brings Landscape Architecture back to its most basic act:that of shaping the land. It is not about flowers, it is not about emputiness, it is about shape. It is just that the plants never dominate, while the abstract volume is never left alone. Landscape is a physical material that she molds in order to reveal something about the place, add something new, and blend nature and invention into a seamless whole.From the angles of garden history and the theory of modern Landscape Architecture, by studying upon varied cases, this theme analyses in detail the background, case analysis and design skills of garden, studing her landscape systemly to excavate its Landscape artistry from the deeper level,analysis the essential factor composition, design method to guild our our practice. What's more, it is aimed to summarize some method may be utilized or be referred. As a graduate in Landscape Architecture, the primary purpose I studied lies in guilding practice. So it is not a study on history or on theory, it stresses on to the design concept and the design method summary. In addition, As an Oriental, it is of great importance to study the culture which has different tradition with ourselves, it can provide different views and find it may have many kinds of possibilities, we hope can seek to the spanning culture, the spanning time universal spirit in the different cultural artistic treasure house.