Graduation Semester and Year

1988

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Landscape Architecture

Department

Landscape Architecture

First Advisor

Oliver Windham

Second Advisor

Robert DeJean

Third Advisor

Richard B Myrick

Abstract

Design is most often carried out as an aesthetic exercise in visual affect and spatial treatment. If more stimulation of other human senses (orienting, auditory, smell / taste, visual, and haptic) were to occur in a place, perhaps the place would become more meaningful and memorable. In an effort to address this hypothesis, a Sensory Garden was designed, and hopefully will be implemented. As far as can be determined no other gardens in the United States exist which were designed explicitly to stimulate all the senses. There is a Fragrance Garden at the Strybing Arboretum at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and several Gardens for the Blind exist in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas..

Keywords

sensory gardens, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas(Tex.)

Disciplines

Architecture | Landscape Architecture

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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