Antoine Picon, "The Digital culture of landscape architecture", Harvard Design Magazine, n° 36, 2013, pp. 124-129, 180. (original) (raw)

Harvard Design Magazine

A Paradoxical Contrast with Architecture Surprisingly enough, the diffusion of the computer and the rise of digital culture seem to have exerted a less dramatic influence on landscape architecture than on architecture. Part of the astonishment comes from the fact that the applications of computing to geography and landscape are as old, if not older, as those concerning architecture. Harvard's SYMAP mapping program, one of the major forerunners of present-day GIS systems, dates back to the 1960s, a time when computer-aided architectural design was still in its infancy.

Journal of Landscape Architecture The critical visual landscape

A number of designers and academics, all notable for their innovative approach to landscape architecture, were asked to choose an image that has shaped their landscape imagination over the last thirty years. It could be their own or from another artist or designer. It might have been instrumental in defining the design process of a significant project. It may have been important in suggesting a method or direction for research or practice. Or, it may have had resonance throughout their landscape career. The collection is necessarily heterogeneous. Texts and images together encapsulate a range of particularly landscape architectural considera- tions in content, method, and purpose; a lexicon arising both from looking at images and making them.

Landscape as a Response to Architecture

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2016

The paper tries to investigate the processes through which landscape Design Thinking evolves through the medium of few case studies/studio exercises. These are our experiments to help discuss the long standing creative engagement & the most aspired Integration of Architecture & Landscape. The understanding of these processes is with an objective that will help critically appraise & justify landscape design beyond face value appreciation. Thus it will help establish the validity of a given or created Environment in response to the built. As a discipline, conventionally landscape has always been thought as an interdependent on Architecture. The paper also tries to outreach this aspect where in landscape distills itself from architecture & attempts to gain identity for itself.

Early Analytical Cartography in the Digital Transition

2015

With the exception of a few individuals, academic and government researchers in the United States started the transition from manual and photo-assisted techniques of cartography to computer-assisted cartography and geographic analysis in the 1970s. Although collaboration between government and academic cartographers started from the beginning of this transition, these two groups developed differing concepts, practices, and technology. This heritage is still present in concepts of a mapping infrastructure for the country today. This study examines the transition of the national topographic survey to new technologies within the context of its institutional past and how that legacy affected government domestic mapping in contrast to the effect of the contemporary academic cartographic research.

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