Description
Conceptual Landscapes explores the dilemma faced in the early moments of design thinking through a gradient of work in landscape and environmental design media by both emerging and well-established designers and educators of landscape architecture. It questions where and, more importantly, how the process of design starts.
The book deconstructs the steps of conceptualizing design in order to reignite pedagogical discussions about timing and design fundamentals, and to reveal how the spark of an idea happens – from a range of unique perspectives. Through a careful arrangement of visual essays that integrate analog, digital, and mixed-media works and processes, the book highlights differences between diverse techniques and triggers debate between design, representation, technology, and creative culture in the field.
Taken together, the book’s visual investigation of the conceptual design process serves as a learning tool for aspiring designers and seasoned professionals alike. By situating student work alongside that of experienced teachers and landscape architects, the book also demystifies outdated notions of individual genius and sheds new light on the nearly universally messy process of discovery, bridged across years and diverse creative vocabularies in the conceptual design process. Lavishly illustrated with over 210 full color images, this book is a must-read for students and instructors in landscape architecture.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: The Spark of an Idea
- Excavating Ideas
- Obsessions
- Composite Drawings + Landscape Ideations
- Pictorial Cartography and Digital Printmaking:
- Materiality as Inquiry: Environmental History for Enacting New Worlds
- Developing Concepts
- Critical Making
- Materializing Atmospheres: Translating the Immaterial
- Tacit Concepts
- Sediment in Process: designing an active channel for Alameda Creek
- Grounding the Site: Uncovering Concepts in the Landscape Architecture Design Process
- From Ideas to Design Actions
- Translations between Patent Innovation and Environmental Design Pedagogy
- Designing Parks – The Art of Creating Lively Places
- Disrupted Futures: The Rise of Speculative Digital Landscape Simulation in Conceptual Design.
- Landscape: "For Illustration Purposes Only"
- Conceptualizing the Design of Fluid Geographies
- UX for Landscape Architects: A New Paradigm for Conceptual Design
Elizabeth Mossop
Emma Mendel
Karen Lutsky
Experiments in Representing the Working Landscape
Forbes Lipschitz
Sara Jacobs
Scott Jennings Melbourne
Emily Vogler
Part 2: Concept in Translation
Zaneta Hong
Ferdinand Ludwig & Sergio Sanna
Justine Holzman & Rob Holmes
Mary Pat McGuire
Yun Hye Hwang
Richard Hindle
Part 3: Forming Futures
Leonard Grosch
Aidan Ackerman
Fadi Masoud
Kees Lokman
Andrea Hansen
Afterword: A concept, in five parts
Simon Bussiere



