Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action is another book in the series edited by Nadia Amoroso for Routledge. This book provides an overview of graphic and visual communication styles for the landscape architectural profession and academia to present climate change and climate action. The book has twenty nine sections presenting the work from various firms, practitioners and academics on their approach and understanding of visualizing climate change. These sections include contributions from SCAPE Studio, STOSS, MNLA, LOLA, De Urbanisten, Turenscape, LDA Design, University of Pennsylvania (Billy Fleming), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas), University of Virginia (Bradley Cantrell) and many more.
The graphics are rich and evocative throughout the book, the text provides insights and learning from each author about their approach to creating graphics. Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action often provides information for students and professionals in an easy readable format.
Many of the lessons that can be garnished from this book include the need to create simple, legible, with a narrative and local identity that communicate the intent to the viewer. Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action showcases the work of many firms and academics and how they deal with context, time, message, production and editing to create their visualisations.
The book is full of diagrams, plans, sections, axonometric and varying perspectives that provide the reader with a variety of communication styles. Thankfully Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action is not just full of realistic perspectives but also provides a variety of graphic styles including hard sketching, collage, mix media, before and afters, supergraphics and more.
With a books such as Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action the focus can over weigh heavily on the visualisations and graphics within the book, however the visuals within the book are backed up by text that provide insights and rationalisations to the approaches taken by each author.
Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action Edited By Nadia Amoroso
ISBN 9781032519968
350 Pages 365 Color Illustrations
Available from Routledge
Review of Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action written by Damian Holmes – Founder and Editor of World Landscape Architecture. The publisher provided a review copy of the book for this review.
