Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks the complex relationship between landscape architecture and photography. It explores the influence of photographic seeing on the design process by presenting theoretical concepts from photography and cultural theory through the lens of landscape architecture practice to create a rigorous, open discussion.
Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, with over 200 images, subjects covered include the diversity of everyday photographic practices for design decision making, the perception of landscape architecture through photography, transcending the objective and subjective with photography, and deploying multiplicity in photographic representation as a means to better represent the complexity of the discipline. Rather than solving problems and providing tidy solutions to the ubiquitous relationship between photography and landscape architecture, this book aims to invigorate a wider dialogue about photography's influence on how landscapes are understood, valued and designed. Active photographic practices are presented throughout for professionals, academics, students and researchers.
Author(s): Anne C Godfrey
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 192
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface: how to approach this collection
PART ONE Groundwork: how photography works in landscape architecture
1 Always photographs: a place of beginning for landscape architecture
2 Landscape architecture and photography: a ubiquitous relationship
3 Making and using: diverse photographic practices in landscape architecture
4 Making photographs: making landscapes
5 Meaning is a relationship: gathering and investigating photographs to create landscape knowledge
6 Do we see what we see? More than icons for landscape photography
7 Active landscape photography: some critical concepts and methods
PART TWO Case studies
The Jacobs + Alta Team: LA River Path
Alta Planning + Design: Setting POB
Alta Planning + Design: CV Link
Coen + Partners: Heart of the City
Coen + Partners: Peavey Plaza
Claude Cormier + Associés: Berczy Park
Mayer/Reed: 30/40
Mayer/Reed: Waterfalls
Mayer/Reed: Willamette Falls Inventory
MIG: Yosemite Lodge Treatment Plan
MIG: Lithia Park
Nelson Byrd Woltz: Passports
Nelson Byrd Woltz: Orongo Station
Nelson Byrd Woltz: Duke Pond
SCAPE: Stapleton Waterfront Park
Public Sediment/SCAPE Team: Bay Area, California
SCAPE: Town Branch Commons
Snøhetta: Willamette Falls Riverwalk
Snøhetta: Times Square Reconstruction
West 8: Longwood Gardens Master Plan
West 8: Simco Wavedeck
West 8: Irma Logs
PART THREE Expanding possibilities
8 More than both ways with photography: beyond the objective and subjective for landscape architecture
9 Many uses, many contexts, many meanings: fluid photographic practices in landscape architecture
10 Combining photographs: complex processes, complex landscapes
11 Near, not-of: complex landscape narratives, complex photography
Bibliography
Interview bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
