Toward good form in landscape

Landscape for Living
Garret Eckbo

Theory - analyzing the past in the present toward the future.
Theory is not developed for its own sake. It must come from practical necessity.

Every work of landscape design produces arrangements of forms, colors and textures in space, which results in some sort of cumulative effect, good or bad, on those who pass through it.
The goodness or badness is not based on a theory of a particular school, but rather on certain questions of the arrangements of spaces, the development of sites, the use of materials, unity and variety, scale and proportion, rhythm and repetition.

There is no rigid central dogma. Our theory must be oriented within the social, as well as the technical and aesthetic, potential of the times.

Design, like life, has no limits to its development.