Should all masterplans be landscape-led?

摘要

When Daniel Burnham applied Beaux Arts principles to Chicago's lakefront a century ago, a certain consensus prevailed about what makes a good masterplan. Yet too often today, when architects lead on masterplanning, it is just big architecture. Landscape is brought in too late. For Le Corbusier at La Ville Radieuse, for instance, landscape was 'just a wallpaper that goes underneath and beneath the buildings' as Luke Engleback of Studio Engleback remarks.