Garden 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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It is my belief that a garden is a structure — not very different from a building.
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Foundational claim that gardens are built artifacts, not merely natural growth.

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 7: How Living Process Generates The Character Of Gardens
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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.

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This living structure in a garden is very different from the kind of structure typically created by 20th-century landscape design or landscape architecture.claim0.781
Contrastive claim distinguishing the result of living process from conventional practice.
The form of the garden, and its living structure, come from progressive unfolding the position of one plant continuing and unfolding from the earlier growth of another.claim0.745
Definition of garden form as a sequential, emergent process.
Green (gardens)concept0.745
The color representing private gardens and positive outdoor space in the four-fold pattern.
Tree structureconcept0.744
A hierarchical branching structure with single-parent nodes, which Alexander rejected for urban design.
That is the essence of all gardens, and all agriculture: that built materials, human-made structures create a setting in which people, animals and plants can thrive.claim0.740
Definitional claim about gardens as a symbiosis of built structure and living nature.
It is the geometry of these built structures, which, like the shell of a mollusc, makes the growing of the garden, and its resulting richness, possible.claim0.735
Analogy emphasizing that geometry enables organic richness.
Architecture as structure (computing)concept0.730
The definition of 'architecture' in computing as the structural design of systems, dating to 1960s mainframes, central to information architecture.
Seats, fences, and other centers, placed in the landscape to connect the garden with the buildings, will form a continuity of structure between inside and outside.claim0.724
The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.