Drawing and Reinventing Landscape

205 Pages·2014·13.08 MB·English

by  Balmori

PRIMERS
Drawing
and
Reinventing
Landscape

PRIMERS
Drawing
and
Reinventing
Landscape
DIANA
BALMORI
This edition first published 2014
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… Their elegant necks angled down as everything sloped
toward the river more than a mile across there,
full of sandbars whose shapes
the water slowly rearranged, so no map
ever stayed exact.
—    Debra Nystrom
(from ‘Pronghorn’, The New Yorker, 13 May 2013, p 37)

Acknowledgements
Many scholars and researchers have helped to put amplify particular points, or to add new interpretations
this book together and have shepherded it through based on new research.
the convoluted two-year path of its writing, in the Noémie Lafaurie-Debany, Principal in Balmori
face of many demands that the design work in a Associates, cast her meticulous eye over the whole text
landscape office demands. It has been a pleasurable and illustrations and was a most thorough critic as well
experience, however, and I was helped in this by my as contributor in seeing the lack of some things in the
editor Helen Castle who understood and gave me some text, and excessive material on others.
breathing room when I had to extend a deadline, and Elizabeth Segal has been the excellent editor to
gave support to my request for a ‘landscape’ rather whom I always turn to force clarity out of my prose, the
than a ‘portrait’ format for this book, the books on quality I prize more than any other. She is always my
architectural representation published as part of this sounding board and ultimate recourse to get where I
series being all vertical. want to be.
Michel Conan, former Director of Garden and Isabelle Desfoux, a designer in my office, helped
Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, was a careful to try out different scenarios for our design for the
and important critic throughout the development of cover which went through many iterations and different
this manuscript. In particular I am most grateful for his approaches in colour, theme and composition.
insights about my own work, and for always making Finally, Caroline Ellerby was most helpful
me go further in the expression of ideas. and patient in seeking the permissions for the many
Lauren Jacobi – at the start of this writing, a illustrations, but most of all in being tenacious when we
graduate student in Art History at the NYU Institute of were sent alternatives of images which differed from
Fine Arts, now starting as new faculty in Architectural the ones we wanted, pursuing by hook or by crook the
History at MIT – was a critical help in finding material right ones, making for a better book.
that I needed as well as writing to different scholars to
Contents
Epigraph 005 Chapter 4: Contemporary Landscape Architects
and Landscape Artists 076
Acknowledgements 007
Landscape Urbanism 078
Foreword by Michel Conan 010
Bernard Lassus 087
Introduction 014
Patricia Johanson 094
Chapter 1: The Contemporary Reinvention of
Landscape Architecture and its Representation 019 Richard Haag (Rich Haag Associates) 100
Chapter 2: The Pleasure of Drawing 032 Stig L Andersson (SLA) 103
Chapter 3: Notebooks, Early Sketches Lawrence Halprin (Lawrence Halprin
and Late Drawings 041 and Associates) 107
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