Contemporary Landscape Architects and Landscape Artists

Landscape architecture is an art of peripheral vision. Peripheral vision is essential for appreciating and understanding landscape; central vision alone cannot capture it. Diagrams and mapping are Landscape Urbanism's basic tools for representation, lining up landscape with architectural and urban practices. Corner has identified three difficulties of landscape representation: ‘the designer's indirect and detached or remote access to the landscape medium; the incongruity of drawing with respect polder Westland to its subject – its abstractness with respect to actual landscape experience; and the anterior, prevenient function of the drawing – its generative role. The process of representation is about developing an idea, first defining the intention and exploring its constraints, and then inventing a form for it. Lawrence Halprin's notebook drawings trump all his office drawings. His observations of landscape, ideas jotted down in sketch form, and lively and colourful drawings used to persuade the public, are effective and clear.