Representing Landscapes One Hundred Years of Visual Communication

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Nadia Amoroso

2. A System of Expression: Writing and Making Landscapes of Gertrude Jekyll

Halina Steiner

3. Beatrix Farrand: Representing Landscape in Prose and Drawings

Thaisa Way

4. Fletcher Steele, the Savvy Practitioner: Desire and the Cultivation of Connoisseurship

Martin Holland

5. Topographical and Landform Explorations: Revisiting Noguchi’s Sculptured Landscapes and their Representations

Shannon Bassett

6. Burle Marx: The Individual Language of Plenitude

Ana Rita Sa Carneiro

7. J.B. Jackson: Representing Everyday Landscapes

Jeffrey Blankenship

8. The EDSA Style: "A Legacy of Graphic Communication"

Kona Gray

9. Boomerangs, Zig-Zags & Orbits: Drawing the California Garden Garrett Eckbo and Thomas Church

Chip Sullivan

10. The Drawings of Lawrence Halprin

Alison Hirsch

11. Ian L. McHarg and Mapping Complex Processes

Frederick Steiner

12. Drawing Experiments for Representing Landscape

Javier González-Campaña and Noemie Lafaurie-Debany

13. Peter Walker: The Growth of Representation

Peter Walker

14. Pieces of the World: Yves Brunier's Landscape Representations

Linda Pollak

15. Hands on!

Petra Blaisse

16. Freedom from an Innocent Landscape: The Visual Communication of West 8

Adriaan Geuze

17. Evolving Representation, Physical and Digital at Hargreaves Jones Landscape Architecture

Matt Perotto

18. Drawing in Perspective

David Malda

19. The Eidetic Drawings of James Corner

Tina George and Nadia Amoroso

20. Non-Sites and Simulacra

Ken Smith

21. The Spirit of Drawing

Chip Sullivan

22. Allegorical Drawings: Developing a Cultural Practice

Walter Hood

23. ASPECTS [of] Design Representation

ASPECT Studios and Jillian Walliss

24. Every Picture Tells a Story: The Iconography of GROSS.MAX. Imagery

Eeclo Hooftman

25. Final Thoughts

Nadia Amoroso and Martin Holland

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Nadia Amoroso, PhD, OALA, CSLA, is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development. She holds a PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, and degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Toronto. She specializes in visual communication in landscape architecture, digital design, data visualization, and creative mapping. She also operates an illustration studio, under her name, focusing on landscape architectural visual communication. She has written a number of articles and books on topics relating to creative mapping, visual representation, and digital design including The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles, Representing Landscapes: Digital, Representing Landscapes: Hybrid and Digital Landscape Architecture Now.

Martin J. Holland, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Dr. Holland teaches a range of courses and studios in landscape design, urban design, and landscape history and theory. He has taught studio courses at Clemson University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. His scholarly interests lie at the intersection of landscape design, cultural studies, and collective memory. He is particularly interested in how monuments, memorials, and other sites of commemoration are used, managed, and interpreted to guide, inform, and influence the public’s understanding of history and how it relates to the built environment. Professor Holland received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MLA is from the University of Virginia. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he majored in philosophy.

"In this book, I find many of my favorite landscape drawings discussed with new insights from a diverse group of landscape architects and scholars. Personal stories are drawn out in this compendium of essays organized around the work of historic landscape architects (Farrand, Church, Burle-Marx, McHarg, Brunier, and others) and contemporary landscape architects (Walker, Hood, Smith, Geuze, and others). Along the way, we learn a history of representation techniques, drawing materials, and landscape theory through the eyes, and hands, of landscape representation."

Ron Henderson FASLA, Professor and Director, Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program, Illinois Institute of Technology

"Amoroso’s and Holland’s book provides a fascinating cross-section through the repertoire of representation techniques used by landscape architects over the past 100 years. This book features a detailed deconstruction of the seductive and immersive visuals of GROSS.MAX produced with the late Ross Ballard, a deep dive into the archive of West 8, whose collages radiate as much vitality as when they were produced in the 1980’s, and never before seen hand drawings by James Corner. This book will bring fresh inspiration to craft powerful and purposeful visual work to move the profession forward for the next 100 years. Crucially, it reminds us that representation is not linear or circular; it is an evolutionary process that emerges to meet the needs of the designer to communicate a vision to positively impact the world."

Cannon Ivers, Director of Design at LDA Design, London, Teaching Fellow-Bartlett School of Landscape Architecture