Innovations in Landscape Architecture

Name: Innovations in Landscape Architecture
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138860681
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Innovations in Landscape Architecture explores how recent advancements uniquely position landscape architecture to tackle complex environmental and technological challenges. Featuring expert contributors, the book delves into cutting-edge subjects like digital design, fabrication, emerging technologies, data visualisation, and system theory. Case studies of leading firms and academic departments illustrate the exciting directions shaping the profession today.
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This volume is ideal for professionals, academics, and students in landscape architecture and related design fields seeking insight into contemporary innovative practices and emerging technology within the discipline.

The editors bring together leading contributors who are experts in new and pioneering approaches and technologies within the fields of academic and professional landscape architecture. The chapters explore digital technology, design processes and theoretical queries that shape the contemporary practice of landscape architecture. Topics covered include:

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This inspiring and thought-provoking book explores how recent innovations in landscape architecture have uniquely positioned the practice to address complex issues and technologies that affect our built environment. The changing and expanding nature of landscape makes it more important than ever for landscape architects to seek innovation as a critical component in the forward development of a contemporary profession that merges expansive ideas and applications.

The editors bring together leading contributors who are experts in new and pioneering approaches and technologies within the fields of academic and professional landscape architecture. The chapters explore digital technology, design processes, and theoretical queries that shape the contemporary practice of landscape architecture. Topics covered include:

Digital design
Fabrication and prototyping
Emerging technology
Visualization of data
System theory

Concluding the book are case studies looking at the work of two landscape firms (PEG and MYKD) and two academic departments (Illinois Institute of Technology and the Rhode Island School of Design), which together show the novel and exciting directions that landscape is already going in.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138860681

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 23 Line drawings, color; 32 Halftones, color; 48 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Jonathon Anderson
Edited by Daniel Ortega

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 732g

Pages: 294

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jonathon R. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Furniture Design from Savannah College of Art & Design, USA, and a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in Architecture from Southern Illinois University, USA. Jonathon’s work explores how industrial manufacturing and CNC technologies influence the design and making processes.

Daniel H. Ortega is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. His scholarly interests lie in the intersection between visual representation and the cultural factors that affect the crafting of our built environment.