Sabrina Wilk Knihy

This manual explores the evolution and significance of perspective views in landscape architecture, from the Renaissance to today. It examines their impact on perception and communication, offering practical guidance for creating persuasive images. Key themes include terminology, composition, and the enduring nature of beauty and awe in design.

Landscape architects rely heavily on graphics to communicate content and ideas. From large-scale master plans and strategic visions, to design concepts and specific moods, through to types of vegetation and -precise construction details - at some point everything has to be explained on paper. This handbook focuses on areas which, even in the age of digital media, are still staples of the profession: drawing, graphics, and projections. Both instructional and inspirational, it covers the basics of landscape--architectural representation in an easy-to-understand way, encouraging readers to draw their ideas and develop their own graphic language and style. Showcased in these pages are many examples from landscape architecture offices worldwide, offering practical -guidance and ideas in key thematic areas: > Introduction to drawing tools, applications, and effects > Symbols in different scales, styles, and abstraction levels > Basic principles for layout and lettering > Fundamentals of orthographic and parallel projections > Drawing in contemporary landscape-architectural practice

In recent years, perspective views have swept into the foreground in the field of landscape architecture. They have become the showpiece of any new design project, frequently overshadowing the plan as the principal graphic mediator of ideas. This manual examines the history of these multifaceted images, their power to shape our expectations and thinking, and, naturally, how to create them. Perspectives communicate planned spaces quite unlike any other orthographic architectural projections, easily connecting with human modes of vision and perception. Yet we have become so accustomed to seeing them that we no longer examine their messages. Moving chronologically from the Renaissance to the present day, the book charts their evolution and dissects the motives behind their construction, while providing practical advice on how to compose elucidatory and persuasive imagery. > Introduction to terminology: Basics and principles > Constructing a perspective > Transmitting the message: Landscape as a medium for ideas > Enduring themes, such as beauty and the sublime > The future potential of perspective views

Few other professions can match landscape architecture’s requirement graphically to represent and communicate so much content and so many ideas. From large-scale master-plans and strategic visions, design concepts and outdoor experiences, to specific vegetation and precise construction details – at somepoint everything has to be explained on paper. This handbook focuses on two areas which, even in the age of digital media, are still staples of the profession: orthographic projections and blackline drawings. Intended to be both instructional and inspirational, this book covers the basics of landscape architectural representation, hand drawing and sketching in an easy to understand way, encouraging readers to draw their ideas and develop their own graphic language and style. Showcased in these pages are manydrawings from international landscape architecture offices offering practical guidance and numerous examples in key thematic areas: > Basics of orthographic and parallel projections > Introduction to drawing tools, applications and effects > Symbols in different scales, styles and abstraction levels > Drawing perspectives: constructed and free-hand > Basic principles for layout and lettering

Trotz digitaler Einflüsse im Berufsalltag der Landschaftsarchitekten bleibt die Handzeichnung eine einzigartige, oft sogar künstlerische Ausdrucksform. Vom großmaßstäblichen Masterplan mit strategischen Ideen bis hin zu Entwurfskonzepten, wechselhaften Außenraumerlebnissen, dynamischer Vegetation und genauen baulichen Details – in kaum einem anderen Beruf müssen so viele unterschiedliche grafische Inhalte vermittelt werden. Dieses Handbuch ist als Einstieg für das Zeichnen und Darstellen im Landschaftsarchitekturstudium gedacht, aber auch als hilfreiches Nachschlagewerk für berufstätige Landschaftsarchitekten oder Gartengestalter. Es vermittelt auf einfache und verständliche Weise die Darstellungslehre, motiviert zum Zeichnen und ermutigt dabei, die eigene grafische Sprache zu entwickeln. Mit vielen hilfreichen Methoden und Beispielen zu den wichtigsten Themenbereichen: - Zeichenwerkzeuge, Anwendungen und Effekte - Symbole, Maßstäbe und Formensprachen - Grundlagen für perspektivisches Zeichnen - Beispiele aus der internationalen Praxis