What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method? What are the right choices to make? Are there right and wrong choices when it comes to presenting a particular environment in a particular way?
The choice of medium for visualising an idea is something that faces all students of landscape architecture and urban design, and each medium and style option that you select will influence how your idea is seen and understood.
Responding to demand from her students, Nadia Amoroso has compiled successful and eye-catching drawings using various drawing styles and techniques to create this book of drawing techniques for landscape architects to follow and - more importantly - to be inspired by. More than twenty respected institutions have helped to bring together the very best of visual representation of ideas, the most powerful, expressive and successful images. Professors from these institutions provide critical and descriptive commentaries, explaining the impact of using different media to represent the same landscape.
This book is recommended for landscape architecture and urban design students from first year to thesis and is specifically useful in visual communications and graphic courses and design studios.
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1 Introduction: The Visual Collection |
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2 Representations of Space |
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3 Thinking Drawing: Image Typologies for Processes in Landscape Architecture |
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4 Projective Readings: Indexes and Diagrams in Landscape Urbanism |
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5 Landscape as an Architectural Composition |
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6 Student Work View: Master Planning |
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10 Exactness and Abstraction in Landscape Architectural Reproduction |
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11 Dioramic Modes: The Critical Potential of the Diorama in the Landscape Architecture Design Process |
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12 Indexing Process: The Role of Representation in Landscape Architecture |
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13 Landscape as Digital Media |
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14 Mat Ecologies: Landscape Representations |
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15 Exploration Drawings Mixed Media |
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17 From Fabrics and Diagrams to Scenarios |
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18 Envisioning Landscapes |
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19 The Art of Representing Landscapes |
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20 The Significance of Texture |
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22 On Landscape Architecture, Design and Drawing from the Broken Middle |
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23 Visual Representation in Landscape Architecture |
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24 Landscape Visualization |
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25 systems | site | program | place |
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26 Drawing Objectives from the Landscape |
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28 The Visual Message: Final Thoughts |
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Nadia Amoroso is the Founder and Creative Director of DataAppealTM, a data-design visualization company. She also teaches design studio and visual communications at the University of Toronto. She holds and has held a number of international academic and administrative positions including Lawrence Halprin Fellow at Cornell University, the Garvan Chair Visiting Professor, and Associate Dean. She specializes in visual representation, analog and digital graphics, and architectural and landscape architectural design. She has a PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture and degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles (Routledge, 2010).
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