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concept:garden-as-built-structureGarden as Built Structure
The view that a garden is an extension of the building into the land, made of steps, walls, fences, paths, seats, etc., not merely planting.
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- Foundational claim that gardens are built artifacts, not merely natural growth.
Chapters (1)
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- The chapter from which all other entities are extracted; it explains how living process, applied repeatedly in exterior space, generates the distinct morphology of gardens.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Contrastive claim distinguishing the result of living process from conventional practice.
- Definition of garden form as a sequential, emergent process.
- The color representing private gardens and positive outdoor space in the four-fold pattern.
- A hierarchical branching structure with single-parent nodes, which Alexander rejected for urban design.
- Definitional claim about gardens as a symbiosis of built structure and living nature.
- Analogy emphasizing that geometry enables organic richness.
- The definition of 'architecture' in computing as the structural design of systems, dating to 1960s mainframes, central to information architecture.
- The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.