Laboratory of Landscape

Shuichi Murakami

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Ambiguity in forms of modern landscape design in the United States of America

Objective
Ambiguity, which means several ways of formal interpretation from one space is possible, is to be clarified in forms of modern landscape works.
Object
Early works of Thomas D. Church, Garrett Eckbo, James C. Rose, Danniel Urban Kiley

What is ambiguity of form? 

Result
Simultaneous ambiguity of literal transparency 

Simultaneous ambiguity of phenomenal transparency 

Sequential ambiguity with walking through space

Diachronic ambiguity as time goes by

Papers
MURAKAMI, S. (2011) A Study on Dan Kiley's Spatial Composition of Trees at Gardens in Hollin Hills Residential Project, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture (On Line) 4:53-56

MURAKAMI, S. (2003) Research on Ambiguity of Form in Early Works of Garrett Eckbo, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 66(3):238-245

MURAKAMI, S. (2002) Ambiguity in the Spatial Forms of Thomas Church's Gardens, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 65(5):401-406

MURAKAMI, S. (2001) Ambiguity in Form of James C. Rose, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 64(5):501-506

MURAKAMI, S. (2001) The Influence of Modern Art upon Spatial Theory of Garrett Eckbo, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 64(4):352-359

MURAKAMI, S. (2000) Analysis and Consideration of the Discussions on the Influence of Modern Art upon American Landscape Design, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 63(5):413-418

MURAKAMI, S. (1998) A Comparative Analysis of Two Abstract Expressions: An Early Cubist Painting and a French Modernist Garden, Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 61(5):445-450
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