Drawing the Landscape - Softcover

Sullivan, Chip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471430358 ISBN 13: 9780471430353

Publisher: Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

Drawing the Landscape illustrates how to create a wide range of graphic representations of the built environment using step-by-step tutorials, exercises and hundreds of examples. This new edition addresses changes in media and expression that have deeply affected the landscape architecture discipline.

About this title

About the Author

CHIP SULLIVAN is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Numerous articles have been written by and about Mr. Sullivan, who continues to show his work in galleries across the country. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Rome Prize, and earlier in his career he taught at Harvard University and worked at Sasaki Associates.

From the Back Cover

Tools, techniques, and inspiration for understanding and rendering the natural and built environment

This elegant Third 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 presentations in landscape architecture and architecture.

From quick sketches to highly finished works, from convincing perspective drawings to innovative freehand techniques, Drawing the Landscape introduces a broad range of methods and media that help students and professionals communicate key design ideas as they express their own unique visions.

Outstanding features of this stunningly illustrated Third Edition include:

• Entirely new material on using computers in landscape drawing
• Scores of new exercises, techniques, and illustrations
• Strong emphasis on individuality and artistic experimentation
• Sixteen pages of full-color drawings
• Hundreds of practical examples and step-by-step exercises
• Solid advice on preparing design projects for professional competition

Landscape architecture professionals, architects, designers, artists, illustrators, and students turn to Drawing the Landscape for the skills and confidence to realize their creative potential.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471430358
• ISBN 13: 9780471430353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 352