1st Edition
Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture Methods, Actions, Tools
Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods Actions Tools addresses the initial encounter between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process. The book offers a four-part framework (‘what you seek,’ ‘what you carry,’ ‘how you act,’ and ‘what you leave behind’) for learning and practicing fieldwork as a landscape design skill, and contains over sixty first-person accounts by international practitioners and educators about the methods and tools they bring to the field, from drones to dance. The first title of its kind, Fieldwork will be an invaluable resource for students and instructors of landscape architecture, as well as for anyone interested in the practice and experience of direct encounter with real places.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What You Seek
Landscapes of Sound
Brenda Brown
Cultural Excavation
Noémie Despland-Lichtert and Brendan Shea
The Travelling Transect
Lisa Diedrich and Gini Lee
Bridges and Animal Affection
Yibo Fan
Reconnaissance in the Wild
Katy Foley
Fieldwalking the City
Aroussiak Gabrielian and Alison B. Hirsch
Phenological Investigations
David Hill
Living Islands in an Expired Landscape
Simon Kilbane
Experiencing Landscape, Making Sense
Joern Langhorst
Gestalt of the West
Caroline Lavoie
Chiaroscuro in the Public Realm
Suzanne Matthew
Design Fieldwork Experiments
Brett Milligan
Forsaken Ground
Elisabeth ‘Lisa’ Orr
Source and Surface
Joseph Ragsdale
Sense of Place
Deni Ruggeri
Digging In
Amy Whitesides
Barrenland Botany
Mary Anne Young
Chapter 2: What You Carry
Second Site
Alex J. Albans
Investigative Seeking
Kate Bolton Ricketson
Reading Landscapes in Time
Brenda Brown
Rise Over Run
Christine Byl
The Carrito
David de la Peña
Site Literacy
Elen Deming
Reading the Parc des Buttes Chaumont
Ann E. Komara
Constructing a Design Imagination
Phoebe Lickwar
Landscape as Storyboard
Evan Mather
La Botte
Mary Pat McGuire
Movement and Drone Surveying
Brett Milligan
Field Impressions
Maura Rockcastle
Mission Landscape Visually Explored
Michael Sánchez
Dronescapes
Elinor Scarth and Tiago Torres Campos
Fields of Invisibility
Jillian Walliss and Wendy Walls
Chapter 3: How You Act
Ethnography and Design in the Garden
David de la Peña
Ecological Landscape Analogues
Nick Assad, Todd Fell, Steve Hill, Mary Anne Young
Site Analysis
Arica Duhrkoop-Galas
Dynamic Viewing
Valerie Friedmann and Molly Hendry
Things Unfold
Kona Gray
Camping and Hypnagogia
Catherine Page Harris
Creative Visualization
Jon Hunt
Sensing Place
Sara Jacobs
Obsession
Peter Jodaitis
Discovering the Field
Paul Kelsch
Walking and Drawing
Cathy Marshall
Learning to see
Patrick A. Miller
Acting Out of Turn
Elinor Scarth and Etienne Haller
Breaking Path
Henrik Schultz
The Grassroots View
Zeinab Tag-Eldeen
Embodied Mapping
Rennie Tang
Move Like an Animal
Judith Wasserman
Finding the Flows
Barbara Wilks
Chapter 4: What You Leave Behind
On Walking
Roberly Bell
Opportunism at Buffalo’s ‘Silo City’
Sean Burkholder and Jason Kentner
From Fieldwork to Theory Work
Daniel Coombes
Instant Gardens
Miguel Costa
Landscape Visions in the Field
Enrica Dall’Ara
Unearthing Hardberger Park
David Hill
Site Omaha
Cindi Hron
Drawing a Length of Ground
Katherine Jenkins
Weed Aesthetics
Katie Kingery-Page
The World Is Not Flat
Mark Klopfer
In the Frame
Caroline Lavoie
On-site Drawing
Cat Soergel Marshall
From Full-Scale to Site Drawing
Joseph Ragsdale
Fictional Landscapes
Blythe Yost
About the Voices
Figure Credits
Biography
Thomas Oles is a landscape architect, educator, and author. He has taught at The Amsterdam University of the Arts, Cornell University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Paula Horrigan is Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. She is a licensed landscape architect in New York State and now resides in the high desert of northern Arizona.
"Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture is well-researched, deep in both theory and practical approaches, and yet highly enjoyable to read given its strong foundations and exemplary case-studies. Largely free of jargon and emphasizing the voices of designers and design educators, the book is a rare achievement of simultaneous clarity and expanded vocabulary in the discourse. Any designer interested in expanding their understanding of their own work in the field will find this book rewarding and handy."
Simon Bussiere, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecological Design, University of Hawai'i, USA
"Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture demystifies the most important and most personal practices of landscape architecture. The book is a compendium of approaches that inspire a practitioner, hard at work at her desk, to return to the site. It reminds us of the ever-present potential of fieldwork to generate singular and site-specific ideas with ease and directness. While the volume shares tools particular to the trade of landscape architecture, there is a universality about its fundamental guidance: to be in the world with curiosity, questions, and possibly a clinometer to discover the distinct voice of our own intuition."
Amy Seek, Landscape Architect, New York, USA
Why hasn’t this been done before! The diverse voices contained in this work explore how fieldwork is design work at a critical moment in the process—the first encounter with sites and situations. The methods gathered here, from sketching to drone mapping, tactile inventories, sensory transects, deep listening, and more, engage the phenomenal depth and complexity of landscape. Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture is a guide and open invitation for discovery and innovation as each of us goes out into the field. I want my students in studio to have it right now.
Matthew Potteiger, Professor of Landscape Architecture, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA
