Abstract
In the process of landscape design, there are always ideas and designs in the mind that directly or indirectly influence the designer. It goes without saying that not all of these are suitable for all the spaces to be designed and the designer is supposed to define these thoughts and intelligently apply them to the correct places. These basic designs may have been originated from the sight of the first beautiful garden, a painting, a piece of music heard or even a dream one has had. The ideas and designs of landscape design are to be obtained from information extracted from the local geographic, agricultural, topographic, environmental and anthropological studies in relation to the designer’s mental and philosophical approach toward nature, landscape, aesthetics and composition _ the problems to be answered_ together with the hidden feeling in the given responses and targets. The thoughts should be realized; i.e. change from theory to practice. Sometimes, this transformation is not easily possible to the expected extent or needs more time to take place. However, what is quite clearly dealt with in this article is the position of idealization toward reaching a suitable landscape design.

key words:Landscape architecture, Idealization, Environmental symbols, Concepts of landscape

  Published by Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal