Ian McHarg is one of the most influential landscape architectures of our time. He is known mainly for his work “Design with Nature” that describes the relationship among nature, design, and science, and the promotion of the map-overlay method. While he left his stamp on landscape architecture this does not necessarily mean it’s a positive outlook. Critics expressed that McHarg would complicate design work trying to make it a difficult science. McHarg also developed the idea that if enough science was evolved, the process was correct then the ending result would be naturally aesthetically pleasing which is far from the truth. It is great to have a scientist that acknowledges a higher power, but once again he takes yet another idea too far.
I believe that Ian McHarg should be known for his contribution in GIS, but he has the wrong idea of how to design a landscape. As contradictory he was in his theories, people are just as contradictory about their opinion of him. But “the contradictions and inaccuracies do not detract from the spectacular advancements McHarg made in landscape architecture and society in general.”
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