Indeterminacy, the I Ching, and John Cage: A New Design Method for Landscape Architecture [Hardcover]

Introduction PART I? THE FOUNDATIONS OF INDETERMINACY 1. Man and the Landscape 2. The Origins of Indeterminacy PART II? A SPECIFIC MODEL FOR DESIGN: JOHN CAGES APPROACH TO INDETERMINACY 3. A Short Biography of John Cage (19121992) 4. Cages Attitudes Regarding Indeterminacy 5. Cages Use of Chance Operations in Music 6. Cages Use of Chance Operations in Visual Art PART III: APPLICATION OF INDETERMINACY TO A SPECIFIC LANDSCAPE 7. The University of Arizona Alumni Plaza: Two Deterministic Designs 8. The University of Arizona Plaza: A New Indeterminate Design 9. A Comparative Analysis of the Three Designs Appendix A: Equivalency Tables Appendix B: Hexagram Cast Tables Appendix C: Miscellaneous Charts Appendix D: Materials Charts Appendix E: Comparative Evaluation Chart Appendix F: Design Process Statistics Appendix G: Additional Images Appendix H: Other Modes of Indeterminacy

This book addresses the questions of how one might approach using this method in landscape architectural design, what the outcome of such an indeterminate design would be, and whether or not it could lead to a viable constructed landscape.

Barry R. Morse, a native of Maine, USA, is an unaffiliated composer, sound artist, and improviser who is interested in the fusion of diverse art forms, especially landscape design and musical composition, the two fields in which he holds graduate-level academic degrees.? He is the founder and director of the worlds only improving theremin ensemble, the Etherphonic Theremin Orchestra.

The creative use of indeterminacy, that is, chance, is an often-overlooked design opportunity despite the universality of chance in art, nature, science, and life. How can chance, a seemingly capricious phenomenon, be made to work for someone? One controlled use of chance is through the Chinese I Ching chance operations method of composeló&