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Representing Landscapes

Analogue

Nadia Amoroso author Nadia Amoroso editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Jan '19

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The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso‘s Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education. Building on from the previous titles in the series, which look at digital and hybrid techniques, Representing Landscapes: Analogue is a return to the basic foundations of landscape architecture’s original medium of visual communication.

Each of the 20 chapters includes contributions from leading professors teaching studio and visual communication courses from landscape architecture programs across the globe, showcasing the best student examples of analog techniques. It demonstrates the process from graphics as a form of research, design development, and analysis, to the final presentation through drawings, models and descriptive captions of the methods, styles and techniques used. It features critical and descriptive essays from expert professors and lecturers in the field, who emphasise the importance of the traditional medium as an intrinsic part of the research, design and presentation process.

Over 220 full colour images explore the range of visual approaches students and practitioners of landscape architecture can implement in their designs. With worked examples in the chapters and downloadable images suitable for class use, this is an essential book for visual communication and design studios.

‘Throughout my academic and professional career I have championed analogue methods as being integral to the creative process. In her latest volume Nadia Amoroso supports what I have been professing for the past thirty years—that drawing and modeling by hand is the most accessible and sustainable form of landscape representation. Thankfully, the dire predictions that digital technologies would replace or eliminate analogue practices have been proven incorrect. I continue to believe in the power of the hand and the heart; this text is a confirmation of that faith. In chapter after chapter, contributors describe innovative techniques and sophisticated pedagogies as well as provide exemplary approaches to using analogue tools for recording and documenting the landscape. Representing Landscapes: Analogue is sure to become the keystone for future generations of designers who will bravely carry forth the torch that a few of us struggled to keep lit.’

Chip Sullivan, UC Berkeley, USA

ISBN: 9781138485563

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1133g

234 pages