Installation for the department of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University Pomona's college of environmental design.
CONCEPT
Representation of the stratified and diverse, yet interconnected sub-fields and approaches to the profession of landscape architecture.
DESCRIPTION
The Greek word for ‘place’ and alternatively understood as ‘topic’ or ‘line of argument’, Topos is about the perceptual variety and the dynamic nature of environmental design. All design of space is initially derived from the landform, or topography, yet this base gives rise to a multitude of strategies, philosophies, and processes – topics, and lines of argument. As practitioners of such a multifarious field of design, individuals will inevitably diverge and seek their own ways of interacting with the existing conglomeration. Topos addresses this state of divergent yet connected ideas, and questions how the individual asserts their own ideas of how to design environments.
Representation of the stratified and diverse, yet interconnected sub-fields and approaches to the profession of landscape architecture.
DESCRIPTION
The Greek word for ‘place’ and alternatively understood as ‘topic’ or ‘line of argument’, Topos is about the perceptual variety and the dynamic nature of environmental design. All design of space is initially derived from the landform, or topography, yet this base gives rise to a multitude of strategies, philosophies, and processes – topics, and lines of argument. As practitioners of such a multifarious field of design, individuals will inevitably diverge and seek their own ways of interacting with the existing conglomeration. Topos addresses this state of divergent yet connected ideas, and questions how the individual asserts their own ideas of how to design environments.
