Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site

Hutchison, Edward

ISBN 10: 0500342717 / ISBN 13: 9780500342718

Published by Thames & Hudson, 2011

About this Item

Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 2440pp 4to.

Seller Inventory # 166283

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500342717
• ISBN 13: 9780500342718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

Combines traditional drawing techniques with those from CAD rendering to guide practitioners from their first impression of a site, through concept and schematic design and client presentation, to construction and site drawings.

Across the design disciplines, drawing by hand has largely become a lost art. With digital tools at their disposal, the majority of designers create spaces while sitting at their computer screens. Attitudes are changing, however: spurred by creative boredom and by a sense of being disconnected from their briefs, today’s designers seek a greater and more immediate connection with their projects. There is no better way to stimulate the imagination than by learning to draw what one sees and imparting spatial ideas by hand.

Aimed at landscape- and garden-design professionals, this essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to “see by hand,” to visualize large-scale design plans and explain them through drawing before using the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost- effective building solutions. This enriched approach makes for better design, happier clients, and the most successful projects. 500 full-color and 100 black-and-white illustrations

About the Author

Edward Hutchison is principal of his own successful landscape design practice in London. He was previously an associate of Foster + Partners. His drawings have been included in major exhibitions.