Amoroso - Representing landscapes : digital

Representing Landscapes: Digital

Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation, but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages. In this new book on representing landscapes, Nadia Amoroso brings together contributions from some of the leading landscape departments in the world to explore the variety in digital illustration methods.

In each chapter, leading lecturers, professors and practitioners in the field of landscape architecture explain a specific digital approach with the use of images from their department to show how each technique can be used in inspirational examples. Throughout the book over 200 colour images cover the spectrum of digital representation to help discuss the various drawing types which are invaluable when communicating ideas in the field of landscape architecture.

With worked examples in the chapters and downloadable images suitable for class use, this is an essential book for visual communication and design studios.

Nadia Amoroso is an academic in landscape architecture whose work focuses on the role of visual representation, digital media, urban design and creative mapping. She is the co-founder and Creative Director of DataAppeal, a data-design visualization and GIS company. She also teaches design studios at the University of Guelph. 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 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/editor of a number of books, including The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles, Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings and Digital Landscape Architecture Now.

Representing Landscapes

Digital

Edited by Nadia Amoroso

First published 2015

by Routledge

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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: digital/edited by Nadia Amoroso.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Landscape architectureComputer-aided design. 2. Landscape designData processing. I. Amoroso, Nadia, editor.

SB475.9.D37R47 2015

712.0285dc23

2014031789

ISBN: 978-1-138-77837-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-77838-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-73185-8 (ebk)

Typeset in Garamond

by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

Additional materials are available on the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/Amoroso

Contents

Nadia Amoroso

Andrea Hansen

Eva Castro and Federico Ruberto

James Melsom

Kofi Boone

Joshua Zeunert

Karl Kullmann

Roberto Rovira

Christopher Marcinkoski

Maria Debije Counts

Daniel H. Ortega and Jonathon R. Anderson

Dietmar Straub

Andrew Hartness

Maria Debije Counts

Andrew Hartness

David Fletcher

Jos Alfredo Ramrez and Clara Olriz Sanjun

Bradley Cantrell

David Mah

Christophe Girot and James Melsom

Kofi Boone

Roberto Rovira

Roberto Rovira

Jonathon R. Anderson is an independent designer and assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Jonathon has been published, retailed, and exhibited at an international level, and explores how industrial manufacturing and computer numerical control technologies influence the design and making processes.

Kofi Boone is an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at NC State University, College of Design. Professor Boone is the recipient of several awards, including the Opal Mann Green Engagement Scholarship Award, the Department of Landscape Architecture Professor of the Year, and the Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher.

Bradley Cantrell is an associate professor at Harvards Graduate School of Design. He was the Director and an associate professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. He is an academic and landscape architect whose work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design. He is currently working on the Mississippi Delta, creating technological interfaces which imagine new forms of settlement, infrastructure, and habitat.

Eva Castro is visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and at the Architectural Association, where she has been teaching since 2003. Castro is cofounder of Plasma Studio and GroundLab. She has been recognized with several awards, including the Next Generation Architects Award, the Young Architect of the Year Award and the Contract World Award.

James Corner is the founder of James Corner Field Operations, a renowned landscape architectural and urban design practice based in New York City. His projects include New Yorks High Line, Santa Monicas Tongva Park, and a new city for Qianhai, Shenzhen. He is also professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and author of The Landscape Imagination (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014).

Maria Debije Counts is a visiting instructor at the Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University. Maria is also project designer and director of business development with Christopher Counts Studio, based in Brooklyn, New York.

David Fletcher is a landscape architect, urban designer, professor, and writer. His work addresses process, urbanized watersheds, green infrastructure, and post-industrial urbanism. Fletcher is the founding principal of Fletcher Studio, an innovative and award-winning practice based in San Francisco. He teaches at the California College of Arts.

Christophe Girot is Full Professor at the Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). He is an award-winning landscape architect and researcher. He founded Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab (LVML) and Institute of Landscape Architecture (ILA).

Andrea Hansen is the principal of Fluxscape (www.fluxscape.net), which focuses on data visualization, web-based mapping, and data-driven landscapes in post-industrial cities. She is the editor of