Historical and cultural landscape of the Ancient Villages of Northern Syria

Abstract

The article presents a view of the issue of interactions between space and landscape architecture, judging from the position that these interactions are determined by cultural peculiarities as well as specific features of nature and landscape in the region. Taking into consideration the above-mentioned, it can be stated that a principal distinction between proper architecture and landscape architecture as its component simply does not exist. The phenomenon of a historically created cultural landscape has been discussed, where there are no borders between landscape and architecture, i. e. architecture has blended with the landscape and should be seen as a comprehensive whole