Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site

by Edward Hutchison

Combines traditional drawing techniques with those from CAD rendering to guide practitioners from their first impression of a site, through concept and schematic design and client presentation, to construction and site drawings. Across the design disciplines, drawing by hand has largely become a lost art. With digital tools at their disposal, the majority of designers create spaces while sitting at their computer screens. Attitudes are changing, spurred by creative boredom and by a sense of being disconnected from their briefs, today’s designers seek a greater and more immediate connection with their projects. There is no better way to stimulate the imagination than by learning to draw what one sees and imparting spatial ideas by hand.

Aimed at landscape- and garden-design professionals, this essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to “see by hand,” to visualize large-scale design plans and explain them through drawing before using the digital tools that are so crucial to efficient and cost- effective building solutions. This enriched approach makes for better design, happier clients, and the most successful projects. 500 full-color and 100 black-and-white illustrations

Genres: Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Nonfiction, Drawing, Design, Art

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 2011

Reviews

[sierra!!]

why was this so fascinating 😭😭

[Steve H]

Academic or professional level. Hutchison explains at a high level and gives examples of the uses of different drawing techniques in Landscape Architecture. Scant on text, which is used only to describe the drawings (including how many minutes they took), this is a book for people who already know how to create drawings/paintings/illustrations using pencil, pen, watercolors, and some software. There are many very nice drawings, but for somebody looking to learn the technique of "Drawing for Landscape Architecture" this is an aspirational work, not educational.

[Alexi]

I think this is one of the great examples of how to do context stuff by hand. I work on digital mainly and was experiencing difficulty in expression myself with hands-on drawing until I met this book! It proved that even the quick sketch could become something with just a little bit more play on it.

[Tom Turner]

The quality of the drawings is excellent, the variety is amazing - and their place in the design process is explained.

[Zoe]

Examples of different drawing approaches and styles, with explanations of how they communicate different types of information.