Introduction to Landscaping
What is landscape?
A course by Carlos Andres Betancur Cifuentes , Landscape architect
Joined September 2022
About the video: What is landscape?
Overview
“I'll start by telling you about some of the basics about landscape. ”
In this video lesson Carlos Andres Betancur Cifuentes addresses the topic: What is landscape?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Landscaping. Learn to design external spaces that are environmentally-friendly and conceived for people.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson I am going to talk to you about the landscape. We all perhaps have an idea of what landscape is, an image, maybe some mountains and some trees, It is what we daily understand by landscape. But is that really what we understand by landscape, What does the concept of landscape want to convey? Well let's imagine that we see a photo, an image, and we all see different things. For example, In this image there is a character who surely lives in this place, which is the mompocina depression, which we talked about in the previous lesson. Surely what he sees will be very different fro...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Landscaping
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Category
Architecture & Spaces -
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SketchUp -
Areas
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Spatial Design

Carlos Andres Betancur Cifuentes
A course by Carlos Andres Betancur Cifuentes
Carlos Andrés Betancur is a renowned Colombian landscape architect with more than two decades of experience. Inspired by Colombia's rich cultural and natural diversity, he founded OPUS, a landscape design and architecture studio in Medellín 16 years ago with two friends. With a philosophy focused on weaving healthy relationships between people and nature through design, OPUS has worked with numerous entities, including ministries, companies and educational institutions, winning national and international awards.
Throughout its history, around 400 people from all over the world have collaborated in the study. Additionally, Betancur has spent 20 years as a university professor in Latin America, sharing his vision and experiences in design, hoping to sow seeds of positive change. His collaborative design approach focuses on observation, listening and dialogue to positively transform spaces.
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