Balmori Drawing and Reinventing Landscape

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-54118-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Architectural Design Primer

How to tackle representation in landscape design
Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. Whilecomputerization has been a catalyst for change across many fieldsin design, no other design field has experienced such drasticreinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizesrapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitallyimportant that landscape designers adopt innovative forms ofrepresentation--whether digital, analog, or hybrid.
In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions ofrepresentation in the discipline at large and across time. Shetakes readers from landscape design's roots in seventeenth-centuryFrance and eighteenth-century England through to modern attempts atrepresentation made by contemporary landscape artists.
* Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscapearchitecture
* Features historic works and those by leading contemporarypractitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig LAndersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson
* Written by a renowned practitioner and educator
* Features 150 full-color images
Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is aninformative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offeringinspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balmori, Diana

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Epigraph 005
Acknowledgements 007
Foreword by Michel Conan 010
Introduction 014
Chapter 1: The Contemporary Reinvention of Landscape Architecture and its Representation 019
Chapter 2: The Pleasure of Drawing 032
Chapter 3: Notebooks, Early Sketches and Late Drawings 041
Chapter 4: Contemporary Landscape Architects and Landscape Artists 076
Landscape Urbanism 078
Bernard Lassus 087
Patricia Johanson 094
Richard Haag (Rich Haag Associates) 100
Stig L Andersson (SLA) 103
Diana Balmori 009 Contents Diana Balmori (Balmori Associates) 114
Lawrence Halprin (Lawrence Halprin and Associates) 107Summary 140
Chapter 5: Historical Issues in Landscape Architecture Representation 146
Drawing and Painting 147
Representation of Representation 152
Representation of Space 159
Integrated Drawings 168
Representation of Time 173
Chapter 6: Contemporary Issues Deriving from Change 181
Computing and Hybridising 181
From a Fixed to a Changing Arcadia 183
Project Team Credits 189
Bibliography 192
Index 194
Picture Credits 199

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Balmori, FASLA is the founding principal of BalmoriAssociates Landscape and Urban Design, a New York basedexperimental design office that explores the line between landscapeand architecture and between nature and culture. Her practiceseeks also to re-enter landscape into the family of the arts withnew formal aims. She teaches at Yale School of Architecture.