Representing landscapes: digital

Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation - but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages. In this new book on representing landscapes, Nadia Amoroso brings together contributions from some of the leading landscape departments in the world to explore the variety in digital illustration methods. In each chapter, leading lecturers, professors and practitioners in the field of landscape architecture explain a specific digital approach with the use of images from their department to show how each technique can be used i.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Representations of the Landscapes via the Digital: Drawing types; Diagrams and Mapping Drawings; 2 Datascapes: Maps and diagrams as landscape agents; 3 Photographing the Hyper-Index; 4 Mapping and Refining the Site; 5 Digital Diagramming; Presentation Plans; 6 Digital Presentation Plans: Still the foundation of landscape design representation?; 7 Aerial Visions/Ground Control: The art of illustrative plans and bird's-eye views.

8 The Site Plan is Dead: Long live the site planAxonometric Drawings; 9 Chunking Landscapes; 10 Landscapes that Fit Together; Section-Elevations; 11 Vertical Plane Typologies: Examining sections and elevations; 12 Landschaftslinien: The obvious, the hidden and a method for their decryption; 13 Alternative Revelations of Sections: Origins of the subjective section; Perspectives; 14 Sensing Landscapes through Perspectives; 15 Reinforcement through Opposition: Metrics and emotion in project visualization; 16 Hover Craft; Digital Modeling and Fabrication; 17 Land Formations, Tectonic Grounds.

18 Terra Automata: Beyond representation of lands…