The objectifying logic of technology has emerged as a dominant force in our world during the past two hundred years. lt has enabled societies to control the external world in the
interests of efficiency and production, while at the same time it has displaced the movement of tradition (because of its progressivist position) and suppressed the poetries of art
(because of its ideology of objectivity and optimization), thereby devaluing an already impoverished life-world (at least spiritually). Many humanists have consequently attributed
much of society’s ills to the alienating effects of technology and capitalism, arguing for the
need to transcend the reductionism of techno—economic thinking prior to the realization
of a more humane built environment} Indeed it could be argued that the primary problem of survival for the developed cultures of today is less a techno-biological one than it
is an aesthetic and moral one.?
Landscape architecture has not remained untainted by these developments. As a discipline, it has become increasingly estranged from a sense of traditional and poetic value.
` In particular, this refers to what might be perceived as the current inability of landscape
architecture to simultaneously engage the recurrent and thematic workings of history with
the circumstances peculiar to our own time. Traditionallyg cultural products (as foimd his-
torically in literature, painting, music, building, or landscape architecture) represent an inti-
nitely rich array of interpretative gestures and figurative embodiments that have attempted
in various ways to critically reconcile the historical with the contemporaryg the eternal with
the moment, the universal with the specific Todayg however, we find it increasingly d.if`ti-
cult to manage this relationship. Many fail to even appreciate the role that landscape _
architecture plays in the constitution and embodiment of culture, forgetful ofthe designed
landscape’s symbolic and revelatory powers, especially with regard to collective memory;
Cultural orientation, and continuity It is not unfair to say that contemporary theory and
practice have all but lost their metaphysical and mythopoetic dimensions, promoting a land-
scape architecture of primarily prosaic and technical construction} After all, symbolic and
The objectifying logic of technology has emerged as a dominant force in our world during the past two hundred years. lt has enabled societies to control the external world in the
interests of efficiency and production, while at the same time it has displaced the movement of tradition (because of its progressivist position) and suppressed the poetries of art
(because of its ideology of objectivity and optimization), thereby devaluing an already impoverished life-world (at least spiritually). Many humanists have consequently attributed
much of society’s ills to the alienating effects of technology and capitalism, arguing for the
need to transcend the reductionism of techno—economic thinking prior to the realization
of a more humane built environment} Indeed it could be argued that the primary problem of survival for the developed cultures of today is less a techno-biological one than it
is an aesthetic and moral one.?
Landscape architecture has not remained untainted by these developments. As a discipline, it has become increasingly estranged from a sense of traditional and poetic value.
` In particular, this refers to what might be perceived as the current inability of landscape
architecture to simultaneously engage the recurrent and thematic workings of history with
the circumstances peculiar to our own time. Traditionallyg cultural products (as foimd his-
torically in literature, painting, music, building, or landscape architecture) represent an inti-
nitely rich array of interpretative gestures and figurative embodiments that have attempted
in various ways to critically reconcile the historical with the contemporaryg the eternal with
the moment, the universal with the specific Todayg however, we find it increasingly d.if`ti-
cult to manage this relationship. Many fail to even appreciate the role that landscape _
architecture plays in the constitution and embodiment of culture, forgetful ofthe designed
landscape’s symbolic and revelatory powers, especially with regard to collective memory;
Cultural orientation, and continuity It is not unfair to say that contemporary theory and
practice have all but lost their metaphysical and mythopoetic dimensions, promoting a land-
scape architecture of primarily prosaic and technical construction} After all, symbolic and
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