That's the meaning of 'tu ren' in Chinese, the roots of the firm name Turenscape by Kongjian Yu. I first read about him in an article about Zhongshan shipyard park - an abandoned shipyard that he turned into a landscape able to clean the waterways, and very beautiful to boot! "Instead of growing grass, we should grow weeds," was what he told the city officials. For all his thoughts that I admire (and I really admire this one person, my ideal of what is being a landscape architect is al about), his ideas take root from an underlying belief: "We need to be attached to the land."
Well, I can harp on and on about his ecologically AND aesthetically inspiring projects, but I think it's better if I just leave my readers with plenty of eye candy to ogle at =D
(All photos taken from Turenscape official website)
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