Landscape Architecture As Storytelling - Learning Design Through Analogy

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their existing knowledge. A step-by-step process has readers consider their knowledge of language as metaphorically related to basic design and landscape design.

List of contents

1. Three-tiered Analogy 2. Typology 3. Points 4. Lines 5. Planes 6. Volumes and Volumetric Spaces 7. Narrative 8. Authoring a Landscape Narrative 9. Storyboarding: turning words into images 10. Ethics in Landscape Architectural Design Practice

About the author

Bob Scarfo, BLA, MLA, and PhD, is an Emeritus professor with Washington State University. He is a registered landscape architect in Washington and Massachusetts. Landscape Architecture as Storytelling is a dream come true, one he looks to share through invited workshops and talks.
Front cover watercolor by Ken Spiering, sculptor, artist.
Front cover layout by Robert Parton, designer, illustrator.

Summary

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their existing knowledge. A step-by-step process has readers consider their knowledge of language as metaphorically related to basic design and landscape design.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Scarfo, Scarfo Bob
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032261867
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226186-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, The environment, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Architecture: interior design, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Landscape architecture and design, City and town planning: architectural aspects