Landscape Architecture and Water

Abstract

The study of the hydraulic buildings and the exemplary case of several urban systems, whose growth was supported by the hydraulic frame, intended to understand and clarify the importance of water on the Canarias landscape. Mills, wells, ditches, ponds and reservoirs directly shaped the landscape, constituting themselves visible lines and indirectly, by conditioning the provision of agricultural land and some settlements. In relation to the urban conditions, the architectural of water, leads the formal quality. It has really importance to the identity of the place, capable for norm, roles and policy and standard for the construction of the territory and the city. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.