The first group of posters presents an internal critique the practice of landscape architecture as a profession.

1 raises a blatant call to think and design beyond the dogmatic, pastoral tradition of comrade Olmsted and his "design with nature" decedents who hold factions of landscape architecture hostage today.

2 reminds that the spaces landscape architects design have social repercussions and carry cultural significances. To continue "designing complicitly with oppressive social policies could place landscape architects "up against a wall" as progressive social movements grow stronger and see no relevance to their identities in the hostile profession.

3 and 4 combine various historical sources to challenge landscape architectureÕs pretensions to a utopian totality (borrowed from architecture) based on formal manipulation. 3 paraphrases and illustrates Jean Francois LyotardÕs call for a postmodern fragmentation of modern Totalities with the destruction of Pruit Igoe, a grouping of imposing housing units considered a ÒtriumphÓ of progressive modern architecture. 4 answers Le CorbusierÕs call for architecture as the salvation of society with the answer that perhaps revolution, represented in the resident-approved destruction of Pruit Igoe, is not only necessary, but is critical for social change. Neither architecture nor environmental design will save the planet.

5 evokes and questions several major figures in the tradition of landscape architecture and the force they still exert in the canon of the discipline. Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and Ian McHarg may not even be visually recognizable to most students, though their rote teachings probably are.