Active landscape photography : theoretical groundwork for landscape architecture

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. 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 "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, philosophy 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 how photography influences how landscapes are understood, valued and designed. Active photographic practices are presented throughout for professionals, academics, students and researchers"-- Provided by publisher