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Drawing the Landscape
This elegant Fourth Edition of Chip Sullivan's classic Drawing the Landscape shows how to use drawing as a path towards understanding the natural and built environment. It offers guidance for tapping into and exploring personal creative potential and helps readers master the essential principles, tools, and techniques required to prepare professional graphic representations in landscape architecture and architecture. It illustrates how to create a wide range of graphic representations using step-by-step tutorials, exercises and hundreds of samples.
Illustrated History of Landscape Design
A visual journey through the history of landscape design For thousands of years, people have altered the meaning of space by reshaping nature. As an art form, these architectural landscape creations are stamped with societal imprints unique to their environment and place in time. Illustrated History of Landscape Design takes an optical sweep of the iconic landscapes constructed throughout the ages. Organized by century and geographic region, this highly visual reference uses hundreds of masterful pen-and-ink drawings to show how historical context and cultural connections can illuminate today's design possibilities. This guide includes: Storyboards, case studies, and visual narratives to portray spaces Plan, section, and elevation drawings of key spaces Summaries of design concepts, principles, and vocabularies Historic and contemporary works of art that illuminate a specific era Descriptions of how the landscape has been shaped over time in response to human need Directing both students and practitioners along a visually stimulating timeline, Illustrated History of Landscape Design is a valuable educational tool as well as an endless source ofinspiration.
Cartooning the Landscape
"Chip Sullivan collects and expands on his popular comic strips from Landscape Architecture Magazine, illustrating concepts and milestones in the creation of our landscapes" --
Garden and Climate
""If the world is to make great gardens again, we must both discover and apply in the changed circumstances of modern life the principles that guided the garden-makers in the Renaissance, and must be ready to learn all that science can teach us concerning the laws of artistic presentment."" -- Sir Robert Sitwell, "On the Making of Gardens," 1909, quoted by the author in his "Introduction" MORE THAN ORNAMENT Air conditioned villas in ancient Rome...windproofed, solar-heated stone seats for toasty-winter horizon-gazing in the Italian Renaissance...Peter the Cruel's self-heating outdoor walkway...cooling summertime chairs fashioned from earth, grass, and flowers, attended by butterflies and bre...
Impulse to Draw
Passion. No Blandisity. Two teachers from UC Berkeley don't teach technique, at least not in the usual sense. They imbue their subject matter and their students with a new vitality. Their job is to breakdown barriers and change perspectives. Once you have insight you can dispense with the formulas. This is not your archetypal classroom workbook. It's more of a playbook.
Drawing/Thinking
Bringing together authors from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and art, this book addresses the question ‘Why draw?’ by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment.
Which Way Back?
"Luna, Chip, and Inkie get lost in the forest and need to figure out how to get home. Can they use their smarts to find their way back? Can they help each other? Or will they be lost--forever?"--Page 4 of cover.
The Meaning of Gardens
maps out how the garden is perceived, designed, used, and valued
Manufactured Insecurity
Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.
Representing Landscape Architecture
Written by a team of renowned practitioners and academics, this book offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization.
