title: Forbidden Ground: Evolutionary Natural Legacy and Decaying Disaster Heritage
abstract: Contemporary monuments tend to foreground architectural form and symbolic significance, rather than the land and the ground on which they rest. This thesis argues that the combination of landscape processes and human operations offers a more critical way to construct a monument to an event. These processes involve earth, water, plants, and other landscape elements, as well as the senses and memories of humans in relation to an event. Landscape is not a static, idyllic scene, but is constantly ev
journal: Landscape Architecture Frontiers