Drawing and Reinventing Landscape

How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation—whether digital, analog, or hybrid. In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design's roots in seventeenth-century France and eighteenth-century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists. Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson Written by a renowned practitioner and educator Features 150 full-color images Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.

Epigraph 005 Acknowledgements 007 Foreword by Michel Conan 010 Introduction 014 Chapter 1: The Contemporary Reinvention of Landscape Architecture and its Representation 019 Chapter 2: The Pleasure of Drawing 032 Chapter 3: Notebooks, Early Sketches and Late Drawings 041 Chapter 4: Contemporary Landscape Architects and Landscape Artists 076 Landscape Urbanism 078 Bernard Lassus 087 Patricia Johanson 094 Richard Haag (Rich Haag Associates) 100 Stig L Andersson (SLA) 103 Lawrence Halprin (Lawrence Halprin and Associates) 107 Diana Balmori (Balmori Associates) 114 Summary 140 Chapter 5: Historical Issues in Landscape Architecture Representation 146 Drawing and Painting 147 Representation of Representation 152 Representation of Space 159 Integrated Drawings 168 Representation of Time 173 Chapter 6: Contemporary Issues Deriving from Change 181 Computing and Hybridising 181 From a Fixed to a Changing Arcadia 183 Project Team Credits 189 Bibliography 192 Index 194 Picture Credits 199