Mapping the relation between architecture and landscape through the websites of architecture offices

With the development of communication technologies, architectural offices have started presenting their websites as exhibits and storages of their architectural designs and landscape of their professional identity. Upon sharing architectural media such as drawings, sketches, publications, and photographs, websites have become a tool or in other words a platform for them to express their professional identity. In addition to being interfaces and actors who take on the role of image-mask in the construction of these identities, they are also used as archives and exhibitions. Websites are tools of information. In this context, this study focuses on the websites of famous contemporary architectural offices that bring together theory and practice. Therefore, the architectural offices selected are OMA, BIG, Herzog-de Meuron, 3XN Architects, and Steven Holl Architects. This study approaches the relationship between architecture and landscape through the websites of architectural offices that operate in practice. At first, the difference in the way of approaching architecture and landscape relations in the classification systems of offices that meet the concept of an architecture program was analyzed on websites. In this context, it is presented with the graphics that the websites have characteristics like maps. In this way, it is seen that OMA's classification systems include the landscape title, while other offices do not have a separate landscape title. Therefore, exposing the tangled relationship between program units of architectural offices in the next step also exposes the relationship between architecture and landscape. The theoretical texts published on the websites of the offices are mapped as disciplinary and discursive along with their visuals. Different graphical outputs were taken using the dataset Tableau Public program used for mapping theoretical texts. A comparative analysis for graphic outputs is presented by discursive analysis of sentences filtered in the dataset using the Voyant program. Data obtained from the two programs being in line supports the thesis. The comparative study is conducted for these five architectural offices and aims to explore classification systems in terms of their professional identity. How they present their professional approach through mapping as a method is discussed in the context of the landscape concept. As a result, the relationship between architecture and landscape is defined as a common area, an architectural landscape in mapping applied to the websites of architectural offices. The dynamics creating this field are the features that separate architecture and landscape from the beginning. Because, even the architecture, which wants to create a new interior in an existing context, shows this to the outside, its existence is associated with it. Architecture defines a new context with the outside through the creation act. This context contains partiality in the process of its definition, but the context reading is done through the removal of the boundary between them.