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Types of focus-center-goal elements

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Description: Types of focus-center-goal elements
TitleTypes of focus-center-goal elements
Creator nameHiguchi, Tadahiko
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Creator nationality/cultureJapanese
Creator roleArchitect
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15. Elements of Spatial Composition in Landscapes
Tadahiko Higuchi, Charles S. Terry (Translator)
Description: The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes
~In a broader sense the seven types of landscape spaces that have been abstracted are composed of four elements: boundary, focus-center-goal, directionality, and domain—which give landscapes their structural identity. These elements can be used to analyze natural settings, to achieve harmony with them, and in developing land and carrying out construction...
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Tadahiko Higuchi, Charles S. Terry (Translator)
PublisherMIT Press
Copyright© 1983 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Related print edition pages: pp.182-189
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00164.017
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16554&redirecttoanchor=23081
Chapter subject tags:Architecture and philosophyEnvironmental engineeringForests and foresty--JapanLandscapesGardens, Japanese

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