Nadia Amoroso - Representing Landscapes: A Visual Ccollection of Landscape Architectural Drawings

Representing Landscapes

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 visualizing an idea is something that faces all students of landscape architecture and urban design. 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 informative and eye-catching drawings using various drawing styles and techniques to create this collection 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 will be particularly useful for visual communications and graphics courses and design studios.

Nadia Amoroso is the Founder and Creative Director of DataAppeal, 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).

Representing Landscapes

A visual collection of landscape architectural drawings

Edited by Nadia Amoroso

First published 2012

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Representing landscapes : a visual collection of landscape architectural drawings / Nadia Amoroso.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Landscape architectural drawing. 2. Visual communication in art. I. Amoroso, Nadia.

SB472.47.R47 2012

712.0222--dc23

2011023978

ISBN: 978-0-415-58956-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-58957-4 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-15216-4 (ebk)

Contents

Nadia Amoroso

Chris Speed and Lisa Mackenzie

Becky Sobell and Paul Cureton

Eduardo Rico, Alfredo Ramrez and Eva Castro

Steffen Nijhuis, Inge Bobbink and Daniel Jauslin

Kongjian Yu

Neil Challenger and Jacqueline Bowring

Richard Weller

Marc Miller and Jamie Vanucchi

Roberto Rovira

Holly A. Getch Clarke with Max Hooper Schneider

Andrea Hansen

David Syn Chee Mah

Chris Reed

Bradley Cantrell and Jeff Carney

Mikyoung Kim

Stephen Luoni

Daniel Roehr with Matthew Beall

Chip Sullivan

Anthony Mazzeo

Sean Kelly

Marcella Eaton and Richard Perron

Karen MCloskey

Rachel Berney

Jason Sowell

Michelle Arab

Jeffrey Hou

Nadia Amoroso

Notes on Contributors

Michelle Arab is a Lecturer at the University of Washington (USA), College of Built Environment, Department of Landscape Architecture, and is Principal of Michelle Arab Studio. She is both a registered landscape architect and artist.

Matthew Beall is a Master of Architecture candidate at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has a strong interest in drawing and new media as they relate to the process of design and practice of architecture.

Rachel Berney is an Assistant Professor, School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, USA. She has a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley.

Inge Bobbink is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), Faculty of Architecture. She is coordinator of the LA Masters education program and leader of the research program Dutch Lowlands. Her PhD research, entitled The Language of the Dutch Polder Water, investigating the landscape architectonic possibilities of the new Dutch water system, is part of this program.

Jacqueline Bowring is an Associate Professor at the School of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln University, New Zealand.

Bradley Cantrell is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University (USA), College of Art + Design. He teaches studios, visual representation and digital representation courses.

Jeff Carney is a Research Professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University (USA), College of Art + Design.

Eva Castro is Director of Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association in London, UK. She is co-founder of Plasma Studio and GroundLab, based in London.

Neil Challenger is Head and Senior Lecturer at the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand.

Holly A. Getch Clarke is an Associate Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA.

Paul Cureton is a PhD Candidate in Landscape Architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Marcella Eaton is Associate Dean (Academic), Environmental Design Program Chair and Associate Professor for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has a PhD in Landscape Architecture.