In A Thousand Plateaus (1980), Deleuze and Guattari describe the rhizome as a model of growth and connection without hierarchy or fixed center, unlike the tree which branches in order. A rhizome spreads sideways, always in the middle, with no beginning or end. The rhizome resists order and control, suggesting systems that are fluid, networked, and unfinished. It can be over-romanticized, but it remains a strong image against rigid thinking, against singular authority. In architecture and landscape, rhizome has become a metaphor for non-hierarchical design—distributed networks, porous structures, spaces that invite multiple paths. It encourages designers to think in terms of connections and flows rather than fixed centers.
Growing up on a farm in Tyrol, surrounded by repetitions of natural processes to which rituals and traditions attune, Weinberger developed an understanding of the nature–culture relationship observed from the periphery.
Today, the possibility arises to define a new design approach to address issues of environmental and social justice in the urban context. Based on an integrated understanding of the interdependencies involving human and environmental relations, the applied-philosophy approach for landscape architectural practices induces a paradigm shift in spatial design. Rather than applying downstream solutions to […]
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