Landscape Architecture

Neither space nor vision is a conceptually simple matter. Geographical spaces long remained framed and defined by the coordinates of Euclidean geometry, itself historically associated with studies of the physics of light (www.degroot-inc.com). So long as geographical space remained absolute, conceptually rooted in the measurable materiality of a physical 'environment' external to the human body, the purest geographical landscapes were those outlined theoretically in spatial science. Such landscapes materialize collective, rational human action influenced by the frictional effects of distance, or describe empirically the ecological outcome of human occupation in delimited physical regions (www.degroot-inc.com).

But geographical study today embraces various ...