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Representing Landscape

Architecture

It has been said that we can realize only what we can imagine; but to realize what

we imagine, we must convey those ideas to others as well as present them to

ourselves. We use images, models, and words—alone or in combination—to

conceive, study, test, construct, and evaluate new landscapes or modify old ones.

Given the transient nature of most landscapes—always growing, always changing—

landscape representation presents a special challenge. It is by no means neutral in

a political sense or even in terms of design evaluation.

Representation requires selection and thus bias, becoming as much a part of the

project as the designed landscape itself. The recent decades have witnessed a

major shift from the hand to the computer, raising new questions about the

methods and limits to what we can achieve through surrogates.

RepresentingLandscapeArchitectureoffers a broad investigation of various

mediums through which the designed landscape has been depicted. Written by a

team of renowned landscape architects and scholars, this book examines the

subject along several critical axes. First, it casts an historical eye and tests the

limits of historical images to convey their place and time. Second, it examines the

types of drawings and graphic projections used during the various stages of the

design process. Third, it presents situations that trace the relation between client

and maker and the role of representation in their transactions.

This is not a “how-to” book, but a “why” and “what” book, and it is the most

comprehensive to date on the many dimensions of landscape representation.

Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley,

and the author of numerous articles on architecture, landscape, and design. He

has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Japan Foundation fellowships, as well as an

advanced design fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Recent books

include Noguchi in Paris: The Unesco Garden, The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens:

Modern Californian Masterworks and Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on

Landscapes and Gardens, published by Routledge in 2005.

Representing Landscape

Architecture

Edited by Marc Treib

First published 2008 by Taylor & Francis

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Taylor & Francis, 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008.

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ISBN 0-203-41281-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 10 0-415-70042-6 (hbk)

ISBN 10 0-415-70043-4 (pbk)

ISBN 13 978-0-415-70042-9 (hbk)

ISBN 13 978-0-415-70043-6 (pbk)

ISBN 13 978-0-203-41281-7 (ebk)

For Nina Hubbs Zurier

For John Zurier

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