projecting the landscape imaginary Desimini, Jill creator Desimini, Jil Waldheim, Charles text index nyu 2016 monographic eng

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271 p. ill.; mapa.; col. ; 28 cm. "Mapping has been one of the most fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape in the past few decades. While celebrating this shift in representation from the material and physical description toward the depiction of the unseen and often immaterial, Cartographic Grounds takes a critical view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to traditional cartographic techniques to reimagine the manifestation and manipulation of the ground itself. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a single cartographic technique--sounding/ spot elevation, isobath/contour, hachure/hatch, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross-section, line symbol, conventional sign-- and illustrates it through beautiful maps and plans from notable designers and cartographers throughout history, from Leonardo da Vinci to James Corner Field Operations. Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, introduces the book, a veritable atlas of contemporary maps and techniques that is as beautiful as it is useful"-- Table of contents: Foreword / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Introduction: Projecting the landscape imaginary -- Notes on scale -- Sounding / spot elevation -- Isobath / contour -- Hachure / hatch -- Shaded relief -- Land classification -- Figure ground -- Stratigraphic column -- Cross section -- Line symbol -- Conventional sign -- Afterword / Antoine Picon -- References -- Credits -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Jil Desimini & Charles Waldheim. Include index. Cartography Methodology Cartography Philosophy Landscape assessment Landscape design Landscapes DESIGN / Reference REFERENCE / Atlases ARCHITECTURE / Landscape GA102.3 C368 2016 526 9781616893293 pucpr 151209 20241015152207.0 eng