"Written by a landscape architect committed to the use of drawing
as an integral part of professional practice, this book provides a
visually engaging initiation to the medium. By introducing tools
and basic design concepts such as plan, elevation, section,
projection, and perspective, this illustrated text sets down the
basic rules of the craft. It also includes a chapter on conventions
of architectural presentation and a portfolio of drawings made by
15 practicing landscape architects. The variety of these examples
and the text's rich and subtle illustrations underscore the
author's encouragement to develop a personal "graphic handwriting."
This expressive facility remains an essential form of expression
and communication in a universal language for a profession
increasingly practiced at a global scale. The author acknowledges
the role played by computer-aided design (CAD) and other computer
applications but exhorts students training for the landscape
profession to explore and gain command of the subtleties underlying
thinking and speaking, pencil in hand. Elegantly designed and
produced in Germany, this is both an engaging textbook and a
necessary addition to academic and professional libraries for
landscape architecture."
--M. Nilsen, Indiana University South Bend
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and
above; general readers.
--Choice Magazine
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