Visual Communication for Landscape Architecture

Description

The book demonstrates not only how and where a range of visual communication skills are needed to inform a design process, but also why they are essential. It illustrates how representational techniques can be sensitively applied in different contexts appropriate to a diverse range of design challenges and encourages experimentation with contemporary techniques. Chapter 1: Understanding landscapes: Observational drawing -- Travel sketchbooks -- Photography -- Case study 1: Berczy Park Mapping -- Case study 2: The Fairytale of Burscough Bridge // Chapter 2: Design exploration Design sketchbooks -- The process of conceptualizing -- Case study 03: National Memorial Park design competition Sketch design Developmental models Case study 04: Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2012 // Chapter 3: Visualizing in 2D -- Evolution of a landscape graphic -- Plan graphics -- Case study 05: Media City Section/elevation -- Case study 06: Aberdeen City Gardens competition proposal -- // Chapter 4: Visualizing in 3D -- Perspective -- Aerial perspective -- Axonometric and isometric projection -- Case study 07: St. Peter's Square Presentation model -- Case study 08: Gardens by the Bay // Chapter 5: Implementation -- Working up detail -- Dimensions -- Drawings for contractors -- Case study 09: Private garden design -- Case study 10: Angel Field -- // Chapter 6: Presentation: Audience Conveying complexity -- Case study 11: Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2016 Layout Format -- Case study 12: The Chicago Green Alley Handbook Portfolio.