Since 20th Century, Landscape architecture, architecture and urban design have been strictly divided into distinct disciplines, leading to a built environment today that generally lacks sensitivity and coherence between the land, building and urban forms. In reaction, 'landscape urbanism' has been increasingly adopted by practices and education institutions to marry up these three entities. 'Landscape urbanism', is essentially, an approach to the design of the built environment that considers both the whole and parts as integral to the wider ecology and natural metabolic systems; using landscape as the arena for generating urban and building forms; and to understand the landscape as an expression of multiple layers of time (natural and cultural histories). Thus, what would it be like if we start to think about existing surrounds, which includes both built and natural objects, as the landscape on which we can start to build over? What kind of design will we generate if the landscape is the starting point of our building design? Can architecture and landscape be conflated? This way of thinking helps to interpret abandoned ruins and derelict, post-industrial sites (which, through time, have become part of the landscape) in a landscape/architectural/urbanistic way that enhances layering of meanings; engages built forms with landscape, and focuses on social and ecological concerns.
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