Several Aspects on the Collaborative Relationship of Environmental Artists and Landscape Designers

Abstract

Works of the environmental art installed in urban context have been recognized as a form of spatial design for the public space in the United States during 1980s and 90s. They enhanced a collaborative working relationship between the artists and landscape designers which would assume several major stages of the progrress. Investigating four outstanding projects that represent an evolving process of the collaboration revealed that the working relationship has already reached the stage of conceptual collaboration even though it was initiated on the basis of technical assistance by the landscape designers. It surely contributed to establishing an extended view of the profession of landscape design in the expertise of visual design expression.