OUTSIGHT, POWER OF OBSERVATION AND SPATIAL REASONING IN THE LANDSCAPER PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OBTAINING

Abstract

The formation of one's own style and the mastery of a number of important professional competencies, which are realized through the acquisition of skills of a landscape design specialist, involves the development and training of observation, insight and spatial thinking. The article emphasizes that these abilities and their successful use in professional activities enable the artist to perceive, analyze and critically reflect on existing modern trends and anti-trends in the field of landscape design. Insight and observation form the landscape designer's ability to accumulate, analyze and critically reflect on existing landscaping projects and serve as a fertile ground for the generation of new design ideas. Observation, foresight and well-developed spatial thinking combined with talent and individual abilities of a specialist contribute to the formation of a unique design style. As auxiliary tools for training professional skills and abilities of a landscape designer, there are a number of tools, tips, methods and cases, but their most effective use in landscape design involves taking into account the variability and diversity of such basic components of landscape compositions as plants and components of the natural environment and their interaction. Modern ways and methods of training observation and insight include: searching for niche information on the Internet and in printed publications, studying modern landscaping projects, getting acquainted with the works of famous and popular world-class landscape designers, professional travel with the aim of maximum immersion in the unique environment of design objects, etc. The lack of observation and insight in a landscape designer can lead to gross errors and defects in work, including failure to observe the proportional ratios of plants and relief elements, errors in arranging lighting for the landscaped area, flaws in planning drainage or irrigation systems, incorrect zoning of a landscape object, etc. The article is intended to draw attention to the peculiarities of the development and the need to train such important soft skills as observation, insight, and spatial thinking in acquiring professional skills as a landscape designer.