Cultivating Landscape Continuity. The Projects “ Design” in the Architecture of the Landscape

This chapter addresses the landscape as a perception of a panorama of experiences and scenarios of our lives and their future in the territories we inhabit and cultivate. We use the term cultivate, not as an absence of a word, but as a preamble to a series of questions. Cultivate to reflect on what happens outside, to analyse the use and enjoyment of the spaces we produce and to interpret the new spatial reality in its different levels and stages. It is about entering into a close dimension, configured by cultural contexts that are marked by behaviours closely linked to the culture of the image and the project. To admit the condition of the Project and of the Architecture in the landscape, the landscape of Architecture, we must recognize that there are direct relationships between landscape and its territorial and environmental support, from diverse perspectives, capable of individualizing specific operations from different disciplines in the physical framework of the territory where it acts and generates a socio-cultural stratum that identifies it, with the interest of verifying its interdependencies and its ability to articulately activate refractions between distant dimensions, forms and materials. Through this text we question the mechanisms that make the landscape a booming cultural product and support the engine of its economy; the city with its parks, its gardens, its squares, its streets or its parasites; the beach, the forest, the mountains and the rivers; scenarios that are part of a cultural imaginary shaped by history; and places of enjoyment and recreation of a society that needs to constantly renew the activities that occur in its representative daily spaces. Scenarios where our actions make sense.