Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site - Hardcover

Edward Hutchison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500342717 ISBN 13: 9780500342718

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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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Review

Reintroduces the importance of learning to 'see by hand'.

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

Strongly recommended for professional and academic library Landscape Architecture and Garden Design instructional reference collection, [this book] will also prove to be informed and informative reading for non-specialist general readers with an interest in landscaping their own estates.

[Hutchinson] presents his wide-ranging discussion of drawing over the course of nine sumptuously illustrated chapters.

The deep value of this text resides in his instructive method of transitioning from (largely) color pencil to digital design. This method is applicable to every flavor of architecture and design, and only the most digitally-addicted need refuse Hutchinson's inviting manual of how to design grandly.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0500342717
• ISBN 13: 9780500342718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240