Modern trends in landscape design: the return to Eastern traditions?
Author
Ivashko, Yulia
Chang, Peng
Published in
Środowisko Mieszkaniowe = Housing Environment
Numbering
nr 32
Pages
12-18
Release date
2020
Place of publication
Kraków
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Katedry Kształtowania Środowiska Mieszkaniowego. Wydział Architektury Politechniki Krakowskiej
Language
English
ISSN
1731-2442
eISSN
2543-8700
DOI
10.4467/25438700SM.20.022.12886
Keywords
landscape design, modern times, environmental issues, traditions and innovations, Chinese garden
Abstract
This paper discusses the analysis of modern landscaping trends. Today’s challenges and environmental issues that reduce landscaping area in large cities force us to search for new landscaping trends. Amid global environmental problems, the popularity of green areas attached to private homes is increasing. Despite avant-garde trends, there is a growing interest in traditional oriental gardens, both Chinese and Japanese, based on the principles of harmony between human and nature. At the same time, the arrangement of modern Chinese-style private gardens in Ukraine and other Post-Soviet territories, without a deep understanding of fundamental methods, including ‘one lake, three mountains’, ‘garden in a garden’, ‘mountains–water’, sets such gardens apart from true Chinese design. By comparing the historical Chinese pavilions and modern Chinese-style arbours, their non-conformity has been proven, and it recommended to arrange modern Chinese-style gardens based on the use of time-honoured traditions.
