The Art of Landscape Architecture

"A landscape architect is a multiheaded professional... [who] is a visual thinker who can creatively solve problems in a complex world through a process of exploration and discovery..."

Here are four examples of contemporary landscape architecture drawings that have inspired and influenced my creative style.

The first image was created by the firm Gross.Max. The photo collage was created with the use of Adobe Photoshop and a 3-D modeling platform such as Rhino. This image depicts the Schuytgraaf ArcheologicalField in a surrealistic manner. The use of transparencies and different opacities creates a light and airy sensation.

Hargreaves Associates created the second image in order to diagram the different layers of their design for the London Olympics in 2012. The line work was created in AutoCad. Then was brought into a 3-D modeling platform to create the topography layer of the diagram. The line work was also brought into Adobe Illustrator to from the other three layer. By bringing these different files into one Adobe Illustrator, they were able to skew all for layer and extrude them upward to create the exploded feel.

The image above is a prototypical american suburb created by Lewis. Tsurumaki. Lewis. The combination of hand graphics and Adobe Illustrator creates a different, more flexible feeling to the axon.With the muted pallet, the focus of the drawing becomes the buildings which is the main aspect of the design.

The above section was created by PWP Landscape Architecture for the Transbay Transit Center. Even though this drawing is very detailed, it is able to convey the light and airy qualities of the design. The muted color pallet contributes to this feeling. Adobe Photoshop was used to place vegetation and entourage element on top of a 3-D Rhino drawing.