The concept of landscape is not only a firmly anchored term in everyday language but has also formed the ‘core’ of the subject of geography in its research-related engagement as landscape geography until the first half of the twentieth century. With the ‘Kiel turn’, both the term and the approach to ‘landscape’ fell into disrepute at the end of the 1960s and were successively replaced by quantitatively oriented ‘spatial’ research approaches. Since the 1980s in the research of English-speaking countries, and since the 2000s in the research of German-speaking countries, ‘landscape’ has been increasingly approached from constructivist perspectives with different orientations. This article highlights the central lines of development for this change in perspective and outlines current key orientations.