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Author Mertens, Elke.

Title Visualizing landscape architecture : functions, concepts, strategies / Elke Mertens ; [translation from German, Michael Robinson with Alison Kirkland].

Publication Info. Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), plans
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note The DVD contains films described in the "Time" chapter on pp.116-119.
Originally published in German with title: Landschaftsarchitektur visualisieren: Funktionen, Konzepte, Strategien.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and indexes.
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.
Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Conveying Ideas and Planning Aims in Plans and Images -- Presentation Methodsin the Past -- Finding Ideas and Forms -- Finding Ideas and Forms By Drawing -- Finding Ideas and Forms By Modelmaking -- Part 1 Functions -- Functions Plane -- Two-Dimensional Presentations: Possibilities and Limitations -- Functions Space -- Presentation of Living Spaces -- Functions Time -- Time As the Fourth Dimension -- Part 2 Concepts -- Concepts Planning Process -- Visual Presentations Over the Course of the Planning Process -- Concepts Competitions -- Visual Presentations for Competitions -- Part 3 Strategies -- Strategies Landscape Planning -- Urbanization: a Challenge for Sustainable Landscape Planning -- Strategies Climate Change -- Planning With Climate Change -- Strategies Scenarios -- Scenarios As a Basis for Guiding and Designing the Growth of Major Cities -- Appendix -- Illustration Credits -- Film Credits -- About the Author -- Subject Index on Visualizat Ion in Landscape Architecture -- Index of Practices Andprojects -- Bibliography.
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Language English translation of the original German.
Subject Landscape architectural drawing.
Landscape architectural drawing.
Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans.
Landscape architecture -- Designs and plans.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape architecture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Architectural drawings.
Architectural drawings.
Added Title Landschaftsarchitektur visualisieren. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010174643
Other Form: Print version: Mertens, Elke. Landschaftsarchitektur visualisieren. English. Visualizing landscape architecture. Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2010 9783764387891 (OCoLC)428007756
ISBN 9783034604598 (electronic book)
3034604599 (electronic book)
1283075458
9781283075459
9783764387891
3764387890