I was puzzled on reading Galuzzi's inclusion of Bolivia  in his sentence : "Libia, Namibia, Bolivia…il deserto ". Afterwards, looking at the remarkable photos of the Bolivian Altiplano in his website, I was reassured. Certainly, views of the plains in the Andean heights can justly be considered as Cosmic Landscape.

    We associate 'desert' with scarcity of water but cosmic landscapes, as characterized by Norberg-Schultz , seem to connote more 'scarcity of vegetation'. The vast ice-plains of Antarctica or Iceland  would fit in equally well.

     Worthy of note in this context is an interesting feature of the landscapes of regions bordering deserts: their seasonal variation. In the borders of the Negev desert (and probably in similarly placed regions) landscapes in the Winter months fit well under N-S type of 'classical landscape' (not only vegetation but also light-wise) in the dry Summer months they fit in quite well under 'cosmic landscape'. This is a point in favor of N-S typology: the landscape style being not so much determined by its geographical coordinates but  by the climate prevailing at particular moments.