Visualizing landscape architecture
Subtitle: functions, concepts, strategies
By: Elke Mertens ; [translation from German, Michael Robinson with Alison Kirkland]
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9783034604598; 9783764387891
Subjects: Landscape architectural drawing; Landscape architecture; Designs and plans
Work titles: Landschaftsarchitektur visualisieren
Description: Summary: "We don't sell gardens--we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers' proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities, including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used, and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom.
Notes: The DVD contains films described in the "Time" chapter on pp.116-119.

First published in German with title: Landschaftsarchitektur visualisieren: Funktionen, Konzepte, Strategien.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191) and indexes.

English translation of the original German.