18 Design Methods Applied to Simple Landscape Designs

 landscape architecture

Many authors discuss design process, methodology, and methods but blur their distinctions. This thesis makes the following distinctions.  First, the design process is considered the generic thought process of a designer as she or he designs.  Second, methodology is the application of methods to solve a design, while methods are the structured systematic approaches to problem solving.

System Modeling

Environmental Relation

  Anthropometric Analogies

Literal Analogies

Learning Probes

Subconscious Suggestion

Brain Storming

Evaluation Criteria

Well Spaced Alternatives

Focus on the Means

Incremental Improvement

Incremental Adaption

Typologies

Pattern Languages

Behavior Setting

Structure of the Problem

Optimizing the Essential Function

Disaggregation