Overview

This essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to ‘see by hand’, to visualize large-scale design schemes and explain them through drawing, before using the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost-effective building solutions. Combining traditional drawing techniques with those from CAD rendering, in nine chapters, Drawing for Landscape Architecture guides practitioners from their very first impression of a site, through concept and schematic design and client presentation to construction and site drawings, concluding with two case studies that show the final result. Just as hand-drawing returns to design courses around the world, this welcome publication celebrates the best aspects of traditional techniques while incorporating them into today’s digital design methods.

Full Product Details

Author:   Edward Hutchison
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 27.00cm
Weight:   1.700kg
ISBN:  

9780500342718

ISBN 10:   0500342717
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 September 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780500289549
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Absorbing the Landscape Introduction • Developing vocabulary • Mark-making • People and Landscape • Capturing Light • Inspiring subjects • Influences • Abstraction • Drawing scale • Line quality • Expressive line • Drawing plants • 2. Drawing on Site Absorbing the past • The context • Keeping records • Jotting down ideas quickly • Detailed analysis drawings • 3. Drawing Ideas Communicating with clients • On-site analysis • Instant visual records • Aerial views • Working out levels • Planting plans • 4. Plan, Elevation and Section Drawing • Developing vocabulary of digital textures • Exploring hand-drawing textures • Detailed plans • Elevation showing walls • Sections • Plantings • Combining hand drawing with vector images • 5. Isometric Drawings Different viewpoints • Plantings for Large Garden Design • Landscape for Education • Urban Context • Digital colouring on hand drawings • Rendering Trees • Examining levels using isometrics • People using spaces • 6. Perspectives Quick sketches • Recording context • Putting Ideas Down • Communicating Ideas • Various project examples • 7.Money Drawings Communicating the budget wtih the project management team • A sequence of drawings showing budget economies • Various project examples • 8. Construction Detail Drawings Planting • Steps and gate design • Digital drawings of minute detail for wall construction • Bench design • Design for a skateboard cut • Paving and drainage • Fences • 9. Completed Work: Case Studies Selected drawings from the working process for: 1. St John’s College, Cambridge • 2. Coventry Peace Garden

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. . .a thoughtful manual enriched by a lifelong practice of beautifully crafted drawing.

...a thoughtful manual enriched by a lifelong practice of beautifully crafted drawing.

Author Information

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, including the Royal Watercolour Society’s annual show in 2011.

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