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Towards A "Critical Regionalism" For Rapidly Developing Areas Of Texas., David Dumez Hopman
Towards A "Critical Regionalism" For Rapidly Developing Areas Of Texas., David Dumez Hopman
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
The published intellectual discourse on "Critical Regionalism" is more prolific in the literature of architecture and planning than that of landscape architecture. As a result, the existing parameters used to define regional elements are not always useful to landscape architects, particularly in rapidly developing areas in which there are few, easily recognizable, regional components to the landscape. This thesis uses the ideas embodied in Critical Regionalism as a means to reveal how selected landscape architects and landscape designers interpret the landscapes and architecture of Texas through their individual landscape design philosophies and methodologies. Specific methodologies for extracting regional elements from …