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"We don't sell gardens; we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, building sponsors, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers' proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities - including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used - and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom. In three large sections, this books sifts through the currently commonplace and available techniques and evaluates them in terms of their informative value and persuasive power, always illustrating its points with analysis of examples from international firms. An introductory look at the development thus far is followed by a systematic presentation of modes of representation in two, three, and four dimensions - in the plane, in space, and in the temporal process. The second section deals with the sequence of modes within the workflow: from the initial sketch through concept and implementation planning all the way to the finished product. The third section deals with the strategic use of visualizations in the context of competitions, future scenarios, and large-scale landscape planning. The focus in this section is not on the familiar fundamentals of the relevant techniques, but rather on the methods and forms of visual representation in contemporary landscape architecture. "Wir verkaufen nicht den Garten, wir verkaufen das Bild eines Gartens." Dieser Satz eines Landschaftsarchitekten macht deutlich, wie wichtig die Vermittung des Entwurfs an die community, an Bauherren und die Öffentlichkeit ist. Zeichnungen, Modelle, Simulationen und Filme kommunizieren die vorgeschlagenen Ideen und Lösungen, aber auch die Haltung der kreativ Entwerfenden zur Nutzung von Natur und Umwelt. Durch die Fülle von Möglichkeiten der Computerprogramme und der weiter gebräuchlichen Handzeichnungen und Modelle, sowie durch die starke Konkurrenz innerhalb der Disziplin, gibt es heute eine große Vielfalt und Unterschiedlichkeit der visuellen Darstellungen - mit vereinbarten Regeln, aber auch sehr vielen Freiheiten. In drei großen Teilen sichtet und prüft das Buch die aktuell gebräuchlichen und verfügbaren Techniken auf ihre Aussage- und Überzeugungskraft bei der Anwendung, immer auch anhand der Analyse von Beispielen aus internationalen Büros. Nach einem einleitenden Blick auf die Entwicklung bis heute werden zunächst systematisch die Darstellungsformen in der zweiten, dritten und vierten Dimension - in der Fläche, im Raum und im zeitlichen Prozess - behandelt. Der zweite Teil gilt der Abfolge der Darstellungsmodi im Workflow: von der ersten Ideenskizze über die Entwurfs- und Ausführungsplanung bis hin zum fertigen Objekt. Im dritten Teil wird der strategische Einsatz von Visualisierungen im Kontext von Wettbewerben, Zukunftsszenarien, in der großräumigen Landschaftsplanung usw. dargestellt. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung stehen dabei nicht die bekannten Grundlagen der verwendeten Techniken, sondern die Methoden und Formen der visuellen Darstellung in der aktuellen Landschaftsarchitektur.

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This text collects the revisions of some of the most significant degree theses written from 2011 to 2015 in the bachelor degree in City, territory and landscape planning and in the Master's degree in City and territory planning and design of University of Florence, Empoli campus. The theses cover the current diversified scenery of problems within the urban planning discipline, using very different methodologies, interpretations and perspectives of analysis. The territory emerging as the protagonist of the young authors' narratives is a complex and multi-layered object; it is constituted by things and relationships, set on the long times of history, aimed towards the present and projected into the future, and it continues to raise their questions, doubts, curiosities and also some fruitful answers. In summary, rather than chances for discussion on a disposable form of knowledge, this works offer chances for reflection and experimentation, and opportunities for the incremental construction of creative solutions by its authors.

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The landscape originally responds to the awakening of our senses. Before we can even study a site, before we can project our experience, our memories or historical references, we are present with our whole body. The places we travel through invade us; their music overwhelms us. The landscape comes to us at the same time that we lose ourselves in it. We welcome it as it offers itself. Aesthetic moment, in the first sense, that of receptivity. This sensitive meeting is the source of multiple subsequent readings (environmental, patrimonial, economic, sociological, functional...). Its language is that of the landscape itself, inescapable for those who will make it their vocation. However, we often ignore this first discovery; we lack the words to express it. This book intends to let the strings of the landscape vibrate within us, to let its openings, its rhythms, its grain and its lights emerge to all our senses. Our mute experience of places seeks the word.

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City and territory are currently experiencing a phase of development, or crisis, depending on whether they manage to form the know-how to respond to the current exponential evolution. Know-how that has to make a critical assessment of the fabric of structures, cultures and inherited layouts. Between continuity and innovation, contemporary town planning culture creates the basis for a more flexible model that can seek out new continuities by interpreting the present discontinuity, dissent, difference, decentralization and dispersion. This implies a processual space and new aesthetics of sense and therefore presupposes new themes able to redefine the physical-relational relationships by combining cultural roots, functional requirements and spatial layouts.

Landscape architecture.