ABSTRACT

What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method? What are the right choices to make? Are there right and wrong choices when it comes to presenting a particular environment in a particular way?

The choice of medium for visualising an idea is something that faces all students of landscape architecture and urban design, and each medium and style option that you select will influence how your idea is seen and understood.

Responding to demand from her students, Nadia Amoroso has compiled successful and eye-catching drawings using various drawing styles and techniques to create this book of drawing techniques for landscape architects to follow and - more importantly - to be inspired by. More than twenty respected institutions have helped to bring together the very best of visual representation of ideas, the most powerful, expressive and successful images. Professors from these institutions provide critical and descriptive commentaries, explaining the impact of using different media to represent the same landscape.

This book is recommended for landscape architecture and urban design students from first year to thesis and is specifically useful in visual communications and graphic courses and design studios.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

The visual collection

chapter |6 pages

Thinking Drawing

Image typologies for processes in landscape architecture

chapter |4 pages

Projective Readings

Indexes and diagrams in landscape urbanism

chapter |8 pages

Student Work View

Master planning

chapter |8 pages

Dioramic Modes

The critical potential of the diorama in the landscape architecture design process

chapter |11 pages

Indexing Process

The role of representation in landscape architecture

chapter |12 pages

Mat Ecologies

Landscape representations

chapter |12 pages

Hybrid Drawings

chapter |9 pages

Visual Facilitation

chapter |8 pages

The Visual Message

Final thoughts