A Study of Aesthetic Criteria of cultural landscape and Their Role in the Experience and Perception of landscape ecological Beauty

The First International Conferense of IALE-Iran

ABSTRACT:

One of the approaches to aesthetics is ecological aesthetics meaning to maintain the integrity and beauty of living community that makes our thinking about experience of beauty, as a visual process with momentary pleasure, change to comprehensive thinking. A part of the ecology of landscape is related to views formed during interaction between human and environment with the aim of providing shelter. What we witness as cultural landscape nowadays; especially, troglodytic architectural works such as Kandovan and Meymand, unique works that will be unlikely to be ever repeated, and apart from the historical value, because of their effects on experience and perception of beauty, are of great importance. This article evaluates the quality of landscape aesthetics based on the approach that “Beauty is in the nature of the landscape” and objective and visual aspects of cultural landscapes such as troglodytic architectural works from aesthetic point of view and their role in perception and experience of beauty. The results show that there is a strong relationship between landscape aesthetics and lack of obligation to accept the beauty. In fact, beauty is not merely achieved through order and rule; rather, it is the result of two opposite attributes which are equally necessary such as variety and complexity, unity, mystery, genius loci, multiple scale and strength. Ecological aesthetic criteria set for these landscapes can be taken into consideration and can be used in future designs.