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Representing Landscapes: One Hundred Years of Visual Communication offers a detailed account of how past and present landscape architects and practitioners have harnessed the power of visualization to frame and situate their designs within the larger cultural, social, ecological and political milieux.
List of contents
1. Introduction
Nadia Amoroso 2. A System of Expression: Writing and Making Landscapes of Gertrude Jekyll
Halina Steiner 3. Beatrix Farrand: Representing Landscape in Prose and Drawing
Thaisa Way 4. Fletcher Steele, the Savvy Practitioner: Desire and the Cultivation of Connoisseurship
Martin Holland 5. Topographical and Landform Explorations: Revisiting Noguchi's Sculptured Landscapes and their Representations
Shannon Bassett 6. Burle Marx: The Individual Language of Plenitude
Ana Rita Sa Carneiro 7. J.B. Jackson: Representing Everyday Landscapes
Jeffrey Blankenship 8. The EDSA Style: "A Legacy of Graphic Communication"
Kona Gray 9. Boomerangs, Zig-Zags & Orbits: Drawing the California Garden Garrett Eckbo and Thomas Church
Chip Sullivan 10. The Drawings of Lawrence Halprin
Alison Hirsch 11. Ian L. McHarg and Mapping Complex Processes
Frederick Steiner 12. Drawing Experiments for Representing Landscape
Javier González-Campaña and
Noemie Lafaurie-Debany 13. Peter Walker: The Growth of Representation
Peter Walker 14. Pieces of the World: Yves Brunier's Landscape Representations
Linda Pollak 15. Hands on!
Petra Blaisse 16. Freedom from an Innocent Landscape: The Visual Communication of West 8
Adriaan Geuze 17. Evolving Representation, Physical and Digital at Hargreaves Jones Landscape Architecture
Matt Perotto 18. Drawing
in Perspective
David Malda 19. The Eidetic Drawings of James Corner
Tina George and
Nadia Amoroso 20. Non-Sites and Simulacra
Ken Smith 21. The Spirit of Drawing
Chip Sullivan 22. Allegorical Drawings: Developing a Cultural Practice
Walter Hood 23. ASPECTS [of] Design Representation
ASPECT Studios and
Jillian Walliss 24. Every Picture Tells a Story: The Iconography of GROSS.MAX. Imagery
Eeclo Hooftman 25. Final Thoughts
Nadia Amoroso and
Martin Holland
About the author
Nadia Amoroso, PhD, OALA, CSLA, is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development. She holds a PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, and degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Toronto. She specializes in visual communication in landscape architecture, digital design, data visualization, and creative mapping. She also operates an illustration studio, under her name, focusing on landscape architectural visual communication. She has written a number of articles and books on topics relating to creative mapping, visual representation, and digital design including
The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles,
Representing Landscapes: Digital,
Representing Landscapes: Hybrid and
Digital Landscape Architecture Now.Martin J. Holland, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Dr. Holland teaches a range of courses and studios in landscape design, urban design, and landscape history and theory. He has taught studio courses at Clemson University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. His scholarly interests lie at the intersection of landscape design, cultural studies, and collective memory. He is particularly interested in how monuments, memorials, and other sites of commemoration are used, managed, and interpreted to guide, inform, and influence the public's understanding of history and how it relates to the built environment. Professor Holland received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MLA is from the University of Virginia. He completed his bachelor's degree at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he majored in philosophy.
Summary
Representing Landscapes: One Hundred Years of Visual Communication offers a detailed account of how past and present landscape architects and practitioners have harnessed the power of visualization to frame and situate their designs within the larger cultural, social, ecological and political milieux.
