Representing Landscapes ─ Hybrid

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation. From Photoshop mixed with digital maps, to hand drawings overlaid with photos and modelling combined with sketches, the possibilities are endless.

In this book, Amoroso curates over 20 leading voices from around the world to showcase the best in contemporary hybrid design. With over 200 colour images from talented landscape architeture students, this book will explore the options, methods and choices to show the innovative approaches that are offered to students and practitioners of landscape architecture.

With worked examples in the chapters and downloadable images suitable for class use, this is an essential book for visual communication and design studios.

Nadia Amoroso is an expert in landscape architectural visual communication, digital applications, data visualization, and creative mapping. She operates a design consulting firm specializing in landscape visual communication and data-design visualization (www.nadiaamoroso.com). She also teaches urban design, visual representation and landscape studios at the University of Guelph. She has held a number of international academic and administrative positions including Lawrence Halprin Fellow at Cornell University, the Garvan Chair Visiting Professor, and Associate Dean. She specializes in visual representation, analog and digital graphics, and architectural and landscape architectural design. She has a PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture and degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Toronto. She is the author ofThe Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles (Routledge, 2010).