Representing Landscape Architecture pptx

[...]... actual media discussed— are applicable to time-based graphic forms Representing Landscape Architecture has developed from the symposium Representing the Designed Landscape: Images, Models, Words,” held at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, and sponsored by its College of Environmental Design and Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning For the most part, the book... the Use and Misuse of Historical Landscape Views Like designers, landscape historians must constantly wrestle with the ephemeral nature of their subject matter Landscapes are events They begin, develop, transform, and eventually come to an end, sometimes leaving little in terms of tangible remains Historians therefore rely on various other sources of information about landscapes, but there, too, they... link between the media and drawing types we use in creating landscapes, both as promise and limitation? The thought behind this book is that there is still much to be learned from where we have been, especially when projecting where we are going: let us examine, even in a cursory and incomplete way, the ideas and forms by which landscape architecture is and has been graphically represented and described... print, so that the views that are of such interest to landscape historians are essentially the flotsam and jetsam of the art historical world For example, such images do not appear in the 1999 Oxford edition of Malcolm Andrews’s book Landscape and Western Art.25 Little scholarly analysis exists for the majority of the best-known images in garden and landscape history Moreover, those images were not part... rarely—almost never—do we learn just what is wrong with existing practices and just which of them might need to be revised or replaced The fourteen essays in this book provide a broad investigation of how landscape architecture has been, is currently, and may be represented in the future: for design study, for presentation, for criticism, and even for its realization It has been said that we can only realize... texts describing landscapes often contain hyperbole, fantasy, or projection They are subject to distortion for a broad range of purposes If words can deceive, images can do so with equal if not greater effect In most Western cultures, seeing is equated with believing, and a deceptive picture is worth a thousand deceptive words.1 How, then, should we consider the images upon which landscape history... like at particular moments in time? The answer is: “rarely.” Although they are among the source documents most commonly employed by landscape historians, such images seldom portray the accurate appearance of sites By examining a selection of Italian, French, and English landscape views dating primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, we hope to demonstrate various ways in which those... toward the complexities inherent in landscape views broadly speaking and to suggest avenues for future research Most art historians, particularly recent graduates schooled in the relativism of post-structuralist theory, would never suppose that such artifacts of visual culture could be reliable in a mimetic sense Yet, because of the ephemeral nature of their subject, landscape historians have tended to... owner’s status through examination of the architecture, furnishings, and gardens, such visitors were necessarily limited in number Moreover, the seasonal nature of gardens meant that they were not always in peak condition when guests arrived, particularly during the winter months Early modern garden, villa, and estate prints represented specific moments in the life of a landscape, presenting idealized and... O N The first framework for consideration is communication, which begs questions inextricably linked to intention Obviously, historic landscape views were meant to communicate, but in most instances they did not convey the exact form of gardens in their time Unlike landscape representations made in design offices today, the estate prints and paintings referred to here were not created to guide a construction . through surrogates. Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of various mediums through which the designed landscape has been depicted Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscapes and Gardens , published by Routledge in 2005. Representing Landscape Architecture Edited by Marc Treib First