The 'analytique' is a Beaux-Arts approach to teaching design
principles through an 'order problem' which relies on the
analysis and representation of built work. The term
'analytique' refers to the product of a student's study: a
carefully composed and drawn expression of the solution,
emphasizing the relationship of parts to the whole, and of
details to overall proportions.
This paper presents a post-modern approach to the
analytique. The post-modern analytique expresses the
nature of current practice in landscape architecture:
pluralistic in meaning, expressed through layered references
and materials, and focused upon 'ideas, not authors.'
This paper first presents an overview of the Beaux-Arts
analytique and then defines 'post-modern.' Examples of
student analytique projects, made using both traditional and
digital media, illustrate the post-modern approach to the
analytique.
