School of Architecture

The book "What is not a landscape" written by Dr. Seyed Amir Mansouri, Associate Professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Tehran, and in collaboration with Dr. Hamideh Abarghouifard, Dr. Parichehr Sabunchi, Dr. Morteza Hemmati, and Dr. Sina Naseri, has been published in the Nazar Art, Architecture, and Urban Planning Research Institute in reading the correct concepts of landscape. Landscape is a new phenomenon in the knowledge of place, which in Persian is faced with the doubt of "being known" due to the long history of the word landscape. The new concept of landscape is easily heard and difficult to understand due to its conflict with the Cartesian bipolarity (separate worlds of the object and the mind) that dominates the education system. In Iran, the concept of landscape has become common in universities since the beginning of the 1980s. It had also been raised at the level of society and as a kind of demand for quality. In the past two decades, the interest in the concept of landscape has gained great momentum. This attraction has also brought its natural harms: self-based definitions and tasteful interpretations, especially in the context of the Persian language, where the word landscape was known for a thousand years, have occurred more often. The abundance of self-based definitions has so overcome scientific definitions that it is necessary to first disavow everything that is not landscape. Only then can one focus on “what landscape is.” In three chapters, the book examines standard and scientific definitions based on reliable sources to clarify these definitions and scientific definitions.
Chapter 1: Review of the definitions of 9 experts on “landscape”
Chapter 2: Classification and analytical review of common errors in the definition of “landscape”
Chapter 3: What “landscape” is