Drawing for Landscape Architects 1: Basic Drawing, Graphics, and Projections

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This handbook focuses on areas which, even in the age of digital media, are still staples of the profession: drawing, graphics, and projections.

Both instructional and inspirational, this book covers the basics of landscape architectural representation in an easy-to-understand way, encouraging readers to draw their ideas and develop their own graphic language and style. Showcased in these pages are many examples from landscape architecture offices worldwide, offering practical -guidance and ideas in key thematic areas: > Introduction to drawing tools, applications, and effects > Symbols in different scales, styles, and abstraction levels > Basic principles for layout and lettering > Fundamentals of orthographic and parallel projections > Drawing in contemporary landscape-architectural practice.

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Sabrina Wilk is landscape architect and designer from Toronto. She holds international degrees in landscape architecture (Toronto), architecture (Karlsruhe) and a doctorate in art history (Dublin). Her professional design work has always focused on visual representation, both in analogue and digital graphics. She has been a full-time professor of drawing and visualisation in landscape architecture at the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, -Germany, since 2005, and has taught visualisation courses at many institutions across Europe. Her passion for landscape imagery led to her founding the -LineScape drawing academy, and she remains dedicated to fostering a culture of diverse visual-isations and graphic exploration within the landscape design professions.