The Theory And Method Of"Nonelinear Landscape"Design

There has been a nonlinearity boom in landscape design since the beginning of the21st century. Designers subverted the traditional thinking mode of Euclidean geometry and complex, dynamic non-linear landscapes meet the contemporary aesthetic needs. Architects at home and abroad try to introduce fractal techniques into the field, bringing about brand-new ideas.However, the too much pursuit of morphology doesn’t fundamentally get to the very core in landscape disign, which merely substitutes the deconstructionism in an ingenious way. In the background full of "landscape ecology" slogans, this thesis tries to combine the "nonlinear science" with the "landscape ecology," and thus construct a feasible approach to the ecologization of the landscape design. The coordination of autonomy and heteronomy shall be achieved by means of nonlinearity and bears individuality together with ecologic, contextual, and social factors.At the same time, nonlinear languages are used to find the mechanism behind the styles and explore landscape designing languages, in order to end today’s stylistic chaos in landscape designing. Targeting on the severely damaged urban ecology, the nonlinear landscape from the ecological perspective is studied to save the energy, reduce the pollution, landscape that fits the ecological value, and offer a sustainable one that corresponds with human lifestyles.The thesis discusses the characteristics of the nonlinear landscape design application, its theoretical principles, and the background, against which it emerged. Linear landscapes and non-linear ones are compared so as to prove that the non-linear ones didn’t come from nothing but with a solid theoretical basis. In this paper,"nonlinear landscapes" are the supplement to the linear ones.