Representing landscape architecture / edited by Marc Treib.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Treib, Marc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture.

Landscape assessment.

Landscape architectural drawing.

Physical Description:

xxi, 240 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2008.

Summary:

Offers a broad investigation of various mediums through which the designed landscape has been depicted, examining it from the limits imposed by a historical perspective, and through the mode of graphic representation used during the various stages of the design process and from the perspective of the relationship between the client and the maker throughout their interactions.

Contents:

On the use and misuse of historical landscape views / Dianne Harris and David L. Hays

Scenic transformation and landscape improvement : temporalities in the garden designs of Humphry Repton / Stephen Daniels

Color fields / Walter Hood

Observation and the analytical representation of space / Chip Sullivan

From paper to park / Thorbjörn Andersson

No representation without representation / Randolph Thomspon Hester, Jr.

On plans / Marc Treib

Skewed realities : the garden and the axonometric drawing / Dorothée Imbert

Drawings at work : working drawings, construction documents / Laurie Olin

Modeling the landscape / Peter Walker

Modeling, physical and virtual / Kirt Rieder

Photographic landscapes : time stilled, place transposed / Marc Treib

Set and location : the garden and film / Kenneth Helphand

From chalk to CAD : drawing materials in the work of Alle Hosper / Noël van Dooren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Jones Fund bookplate.

Contains:

Olin, Laurie. Drawings at work.

Other Format:

Online version: Representing landscape architecture.

ISBN:

9780415700429

0415700426

9780415700436

0415700434

OCLC:

182621546