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I believe it is always interesting to listen and to see what our colleagues are doing in Europe. It usually helps to bring perspective concerning landscape architecture in North America and appreciation for landscape architectural activities world-wide. During my time in Europe (Fall 2004) while on a sabbatical with a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Universidade do Algarve, in the Landscape Architecture Program at Faro, Portugal, I had the opportunity to attend two conferences. One was the ECLAS 2003 conference held in Lisbon, Portugal and the other was a one day meeting sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Department at the Institut Nationale de Horticulture (INH) and Paysage, in Angers, France.

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There is an outdoor tropical landscape closer to the North Pole than most of Minnesota. In North America at this latitude, somewhere between Morden, Manitoba, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, the winter temperatures can reach minus 30 to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Yet travel almost 5,000 miles directly to the east, in the Atlantic Ocean and one will find the Isles of Scilly, where the temperatures rarely fall below freezing and tropical plants abound at the Tresco Abbey Garden.

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During the fall of 2003, I had the opportunity to live in Faro, Portugal during a Fulbright. The Algarve is the most southern province of Portugal. The name is derived from Arabic (al-Gharb or al-Andalus), meaning west of Andalucia, where Andalucia is the southern region of Spain which includes the cities of Sevilla, Acrocs, Tarifa, Granada, Ronda, and Cordoba. In the Algarve, Faro is the provincial/district capital, inhabited by the Phoenicians, then the Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, and Moslems. The southwest corner of the Algarve was called, "the end of the world" by the Greeks. During the Roman occupations, north of the Algarve in central Portugal, the land was known as Lusitania.

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For the most part, the use of the design concept and the design process is a construct of the 20th Century, promoted formatively in the last century by the Prairie School architects such as Walter Burley Griffin and the Bauhaus designers, such as painter and educator Paul Klee. However, there are sites around the globe containing strong concepts that were developed long before the modernists of the 20th Century. One of these sites is Portugal's Bom Jesus de Monte.

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