[英语学习]生存的艺术english.doc

The Art of Survival: Positioning Landscape Architecture in The New Era (生存的艺术：定位当代景观设计学) 作者：俞孔坚?　　发表：The Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture, Kongjian Yu and Mary Padua (Editor), Images, 2006 评论(3) 打印 景观文章·景观中国 http://paper.L (Keynote Speech delivered at the 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting and 43rd IFLA World Congress, Minneapolis, USA, October 7, 2006. Reprinted ( with extensive editing), from Conference Speaker Summaries.) Kongjian Yu, ASLA Dean and Professor, The Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University and President,Turenscape, Beijing, China Abstract In a new era of multiple unprecedented challenges imposed by the processes of industrialization and urbanization, landscape architecture is now on the verge of change in the world, and especially in China. It is time for this profession to take the great opportunity to position itself to play the key role in rebuilding a new Land of Peach Blossoms for a new society of urbanized, global, and interconnected people. In order to position itself for this sacred role, landscape architecture must define itself in terms of the art of survival, not just as a descendent of gardening. The profession must re-evaluate the vernacular of the land and the people, and lead the way in urban development by planning and designing an infrastructure of both landscape and ecology, through which landscape can be created and preserved as a medium, and as the connecting link between the land, the people, and the spirits.Introduction China is now at the stage of reshaping its rural and urban landscape. Urbanization, globalization and the spread of materialism have provided an opportunity for landscape architecture as a profession to address the following three major challenges and opportunities in the coming decades. First, a solution must be found to address the energy and environmental crises. Second, cultural identity must be regained, and third, the sense of spiritual connection to the ear