Conceptual Landscapes

<p><em>Conceptual Landscapes</em> 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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 By situating student work alongside that of experienced teachers and landscape architects, the book also demystifies outdated notions of individual genius and sheds new light on the nearly universally messy process of discovery, bridged across years and diverse creative vocabularies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.</p> <p><strong>Introduction </strong></p><p><strong>Part 1: The Spark of an Idea</strong> </p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Excavating Ideas</li> <i> </i><p>Elizabeth Mossop</p> <p> </p> <li>Obsessions</li> <i> </i><p>Emma Mendel</p> <p> </p> <li>Composite Drawings + Landscape Ideations </li> <i> </i><p>Karen Lutsky </p> <p> </p> <li>Pictorial Cartography and Digital Printmaking: </li> <p>Experiments in Representing the Working Landscape </p> <i> </i><p>Forbes Lipschitz </p> <p> </p> <li>Materiality as Inquiry: Environmental History for Enacting New Worlds</li> <i> </i><p>Sara Jacobs</p> <p> </p> <li>Developing Concepts</li> <i> </i><p>Scott Jennings Melbourne</p> <p> </p> <li>Critical Making</li> <i> </i><p>Emily Vogler</p> <p><b>Part 2: Concept in Translation </b></p> <p> </p> <li>Materializing Atmospheres: Translating the Immaterial</li> <i> </i><p>Zaneta Hong</p> <p> </p> <li>Tacit Concepts</li> <i> </i><p>Ferdinand Ludwig & Sergio Sanna</p> <p> </p> <li>Sediment in Process: designing an active channel for Alameda Creek</li> <i> </i><p>Justine Holzman & Rob Holmes</p> <p> </p> <li>Grounding the Site: Uncovering Concepts in the Landscape Architecture Design Process</li> <i> </i><p>Mary Pat McGuire</p> <p> </p> <li>From Ideas to Design Actions</li> <i> </i><p>Yun Hye Hwang</p> <p> </p> <li>Translations between Patent Innovation and Environmental Design Pedagogy</li> <i> </i><p>Richard Hindle </p> <b> </b><p>Part 3: Forming Futures</p> <p> </p> <li>Designing Parks – The Art of Creating Lively Places</li> <i> </i><p>Leonard Grosch </p> <p> </p> <li>Disrupted Futures: The Rise of Speculative Digital Landscape Simulation in Conceptual Design. </li> <i> </i><p>Aidan Ackerman</p> <p> </p> <li>Landscape: "For Illustration Purposes Only"</li> <i> </i><p>Fadi Masoud </p> <p> </p> <li>Conceptualizing the Design of Fluid Geographies</li> <i> </i><p>Kees Lokman</p> <p> </p> <li>UX for Landscape Architects: A New Paradigm for Conceptual Design</li> </ol><p>Andrea Hansen</p><p>Afterword: A concept, in five parts</p><p>Simon Bussiere</p>