Drawing and reinventing landscape
By: Balmori, Diana
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Publisher: West Sussex John Wiley & Sons 2014Description: 200 Pages | Binding - Paperback |.ISBN: 978-1-119-96702-6.Subject(s): CONTEMPORARY REINVENTION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; PLEASURE OF DRAWING; NOTEBOOKS EARLY SKETCHES AND LATE DRAWING; LANDSCAPE URBANISM; BERNARD LASSUS; PATRICIA JOHANSON | GRAPHICS AND DRAWINGS (GRP/DRW)DDC classification: 743.836 Summary: Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation―whether digital, analog, or hybrid.
In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design′s roots in seventeenth–century France and eighteenth–century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists.
Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture
Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson
Written by a renowned practitioner and educator
Features 150 full–color images
Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.
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Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation―whether digital, analog, or hybrid.
In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design′s roots in seventeenth–century France and eighteenth–century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists.
Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture
Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson
Written by a renowned practitioner and educator
Features 150 full–color images
Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.
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