Luigi Ghirri - Lucerna 1971
Landscape. The concept
of landscape is an evolving and unfolding subject. It engages with
those who engage with it and captures the imagination. It is
everything beyond the threshold. While often being relegated to
secondary consideration in design, it is the cornerstone of great
design and the harmony between the subject of landscape and the objects
occupying the landscape (architecture) is the world which we inhabit.
It is through collaboration that these two come together in harmony
and opposition to embark on the evolution of the built environment.
The
innate fascination with landscape has been drained from our way of
living in ever more compartmentalised and dehumanising interpretations
of "the great australian dream" or how ever many other international
equivalents. This segregation of people and place dulls our senses and
knowledge of, and relationship with the places in which we live.
Landscape
should continue to captivate and engage with us in all of its forms,
from the loaded notion of the 'natural' to the most densely populated
cities of the world, your daily journey is through one kind of
landscape or another, so value it and engage with and observe it.
Participate in the landscape, it is the future as it has been the
past. Everything beyond the threshold.
Carlo Missio
