The imitation of landscape in contemporaneous architectural projects

Abstract

At present, landscapes are configured as an array of relationships reconstructed by the architectural project. A historical, cultural, ethical and aesthetical ownership framework is defined, which frames the project itself, granting it meaning and identity. The current concept of landscape is not as rigid, static and perfected as the pre-modern nature, when it was one of the imitation models to be followed under the Aristotelian tenet: ars imitatio naturae. This work suggests that the architectural project is an action or praxis basically motivated by a rational, conscious, and free imitation desire of certain prototypes or models. One of these models is landscape. Currently, landscape emerges as an analogical, emotional or figurative model for architecture. Ultimately, it is one of the imitation models used during the contemporaneous project process.