Composing Landscapes Analysis, Typology and Experiments for Design

Name: Composing Landscapes Analysis, Typology and Experiments for Design
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ISBN: 9783764387822

ISBN-10: 3764387823

ISBN-13: 9783764387822

Edition: 2009

Authors: Clemens Steenbergen, Sabine Meeks, Steffen Nijhuis

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In landscape-architectural design, a study of the site is naturally a crucially important design step. How can the preexisting layers, traces, and elements be broken down and made fruitful for the recomposition of the landscape? This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. With more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involved in composing landscapes (e.g., reduction, decomposition, fragmentation, montage, and collage). Topics range from architectonic details to gardens all the way to cityscapes and cultivated areas, including New Yorks Central Park,…

Book details

List price: $90.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication date: 10/9/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 429
Size: 8.66" wide x 8.66" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English



Intelligent Landscapes


Foreword



Subject, Method, Technique


Subject - The Landscape as Three-Dimensional Design


Architecture and landscape


The form of the man-made landscape


The form of the urban landscape


The composition as a framework


Method - Design Research and Research by Design


Object and context


Technique - The Drawing as Instrument


Copying


Analytic drawing


Experimental drawing


The drawing process


Drawing technique and research technique


Drawings


Plan Analysis


Basic form


Spatial form


Metaphorical form


Programmatic form


Typology


Composition elements


Composition scheme


Transformation of the type


The Design Experiment


Experimental transformation of the topography


Experimental transformation of the type


Experimental Design


Experimental composition


Overview


Drawing Techniques


Research Techniques


Bibliography by Chapter


Index


Research techniques


Drawing techniques


Landscape architectonic concepts