SUBSTANCE AND STRUCTURE II: THE DIGITAL CULTURE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

Beginning with a question about the comparative influence of digital culture in architecture and landscape architecture, Antoine Picon examines our engagement with digital processes and its implications for the making of landscapes. Surprisingly enough, the diffusion of the computer and the rise of digital culture seem to have exerted a less dramatic influence on landscape architecture than on architecture. Part of the astonishment comes from the fact that the applications of computing to geography and landscape are as old, if not older, as those concerning architecture. Harvard's SYMAP mapping program, one of the major forerunners of present-day GIS systems, dates back to the 1960s, a time when computer-aided architectural design was still in its infancy.