Why Landscape Architects are Getting Beyond the Grid.
A spate of recent landscape architecture projects are loosening up the traditional orthogonal geometry that has dominated both traditional and modern design and instead embracing a more layered, intentionally incongruous approach to space-making.
These projects use design strategies closely related to collage and montage. For much of the past century, strength in design was assumed to be a result of closely adhering to a single geometric framework. Classical design relied on axial arrangements; modern design relied on the grid. The result has been over a century of primarily orthogonal geometries underlying landscape architectural projects.
But a new trend is emerging that breaks the grid and embraces incongruity.
