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A GARDEN AS MEDITATION: EAS ASIAN AESTHETICS AND YIN YANG PHILOSOPHY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Landscape Architecture Undergraduate

Offering Department(s)

Landscape Architecture

Terms Typically Offered

Wintersession

Academic Level

Undergraduate

Meditation, a way for awaking both the sense and mind, has significant influence on our awareness of being in the world. Though it used to be a religious practice in Hinduism and Buddhism, it has been mentioned a lot recently because of our yearning for peaceful state of our life. Landscape architecture, as the dwelling of human being, address the same issue as meditation. Chinese and Japanese gardens, with original focuses on quiet private space, have been taken as the achievement of our poetic dwelling in nature. We will take the philosophy of Yin Yang in Chinese culture and other related theory in east Asian aesthetics as the methods for designing a journey of meditation in the form of gardening. With a series of projects (interpretative collage; sequential section and space study and ethereal garden design), students will be guided through the primary landscape design techniques step by step and be able to spatialize conceptual ideas into models. Estimated material cost $50.00

Student Eligibility

Academic Level in the selection list Graduate

Min. Credits

3

Max. Credits

3

Weekly Contact Hours

10

Repeatable

No

Instructional Method

Studio

Delivery Mode

In-Person