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Established by Jay Appleton in 1975 text "The Experience of Landscape"
Human aesthetic experience is based on perceptions that are evolved for survival.
Places with a clear view provide prospect, while safe places to hide provide refuge.
- 2006 Study published analyzing children's preference for landscape paintings
- Adults prefer landscapes and seascapes
- Older study showed children 8 to 11 prefer Savannah to other biomes, other age groups do not
- This study: Children 8 to 15 systematically rate well known paintings
- Preference for prospect, unseen preference for hazard
Fischer, M., & Shrout, P. E. (2006). CHILDREN'S LIKING OF LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS AS A FUNCTION OF THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF PROSPECT, REFUGE, AND HAZARD. Environment & Behavior, 38(3), 373-393. doi:10.1177/0013916505280083
Jacques, D. (2000). Modern needs, art and instincts: Modernist landscape theory. Garden History, 28(1), 88-101. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1587121
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Image 2: http://creativeurbanite.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/p/
An example outside architecture
Image 3: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/travel/prospect.htm
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[Assault crime]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://assembly.state.ny.us/member_files/130/20050811/7442p4.jpg
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Ramanujam, P. (n.d.). Prospect Refuge Theory Revisited: A Search for Safety within Dynamic Public Places with a Reference to Design (Research Report). Retrieved from https://dspace.uta.edu/bitstream/handle/10106/67/umi-uta-1277.pdf?sequence=1
- Nurture vs. Nature