Nadia Amoroso - Representing Landscapes: Hybrid

Representing Landscapes: Hybrid

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation. From Photoshop mixed with digital maps, to hand drawings overlaid with photos and modelling combined with sketches, the possibilities are endless.

In this book, Amoroso curates over 20 leading voices from around the world to showcase the best in contemporary hybrid design. With over 200 colour images, this book will explore the options, methods and choices to show the innovative approaches that are offered to students and practitioners 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.

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Nadia Amoroso is an expert in landscape architectural visual communication, digital applications, data visualization and creative mapping. She operates a design consulting firm specializing in landscape visual communication and data-design visualization. She also teaches urban design, visual representation and landscape studios at the University of Guelph. She 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, analogue 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).

Amorosos series of books regarding representation are useful and influential manuals of technique, but more than that they ask us to critically reflect on how and what we represent.

Richard J. Weller, the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania

In an age where the making of drawings and representations in the design professions are increasingly being given over to professional renderers that have no role in the conceptualization of projects, Representing Landscapes: Hybrid attempts to recover drawing and model-making as generative and distinct acts that inform and manifest the ideas inherent to a work of landscape architecture and design. The essays herein, are illustrated beautifully with work that moves seamlessly between digital and analogue modes, and often between two and three dimensions. Detailed captions explain precisely how the images were made, in what order, and with what tools and techniquesthereby making the book an essential resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of landscape architecture everywhere.

Chris Reed, Principal, Stoss Landscape Urbanism and Associate Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Representing
Landscapes

Hybrid

Edited by Nadia Amoroso

First published 2016
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Mauro Baracco, PhD, architect, is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Dean of International at the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University. Formerly the Deputy Dean of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University (20132015), Mauro is a member of the School executive committee and d_Lab-Centre of Design Practice Research. Born and educated in Italy, he practiced in Milan and Cuneo, and taught at Turin Polytechnic and Milan European Institute of Design. In Melbourne since 1996, he is a director of Baracco + Wright Architects. His works have been widely published in books and journals including Domus, Abitare, Casabella, A + U, Architecture Australia and others. His works have also been exhibited and awarded nationally and internationally, and presented in conferences and symposia. Mauros research is focused on urban resilience through cross-programming and integration of open and built space among other architectural operative strategies.

Kofi Boone is an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at NC State University, College of Design, North Carolina, USA. His work focuses on environmental justice, community design and new media. Professor Boone is the recipient of several awards, including the Opal Mann Green Engagement Scholarship Award, and is an Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher.

Liska Chan is an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon, USA. Her creative practice and research interest centre on telling landscape histories through abstract drawings influenced by maps, notation and timelines. She teaches design studios, drawing and landscape representation theory courses.

Christopher Counts, FAAR, is the Stuckeman Career Development Professor in Design at the Pennsylvania State Universitys Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. At Penn State, Christopher Counts teaches in the undergraduate and graduate studio courses, focusing on urban landscapes, topography and materiality. He is also founding principal and design director of Counts Studio, an award-winning design office based in New York City specializing in the design and construction of urban landscapes. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum National Design Award nominee.

Maria Debije Counts is a Visiting Instructor in Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State Universitys Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Her teaching and research focus on landscape representation and design visualization as a means of enhancing design process. She is managing principal at Counts Studio, an urban landscape design office based in New York City, where she has been project manager for numerous international and national award-winning projects.

Sarah Cowles is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at The Ohio State University (OSU), USA. Her research engages the dialogue between representation and material processes in the making of landscapes at three nested scales: regional identity; disturbed sites; and garden as a site of research. Her exhibitions include The Salt Mountain Disturbance (2010, Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia) and Elegantly Wasted (2012, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA). She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Republic of Georgia in 2012. Prior to her appointment at OSU, she was a designer with Tom Leader Studio. Cowles received a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BFA from the California College of the Arts.