This book negotiates a careful balance between genuine scholarly inquiry and practical usability for the reader. Drawing on sources across the built environment disciplines as well as social, philosophical and critical theories, the book is comprehensive in its scope. The rigour of the research allows the author to demonstrate the importance of representational strategies to the discipline of landscape architecture, drawing on a wealth of beautifully illustrated historical and contemporary examples. What is crucial is that such academic research is presented in an accessible and usable manner: the clear intention is for the reader to mobilise the knowledge presented within the book, making it extremely valuable to practitioners, students and academics alike.
Ray Lucas, Head of Architecture, University of Manchester
Investigations into how urban and territorial landscapes are represented are essential endeavours for landscape architecture and urban design disciplines. Paul Curetons approach of working between practical methods of drawing and mapping and philosophical conceptions of representation make this a unique book and a significant development of landscape discourses.
Ed Wall, Academic Leader Landscape, University of Greenwich
Paul Cureton brings an expansive and important account of various techniques for the representation of landscape. Informative and insightful, the book brings sharp focus on key concepts including: agency, valence and the temporal aspects of landscape, whilst opening up the intellectual debate for future landscapes in order to provide a strong case for designers to make a considered approach from the increasingly wide range of representation and evaluation tools and methods available.
Nick Dunn FRSA, Chair of Urban Design, Research Director: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and Associate Director: Institute for Social Futures, Imagination Lancaster, Lancaster University.
Contributing to the important task of filling in the conceptual void that lies at the heart of design education, Dr Cureton expands our knowledge of the scope and role of representation in landscape architecture. This fresh approach, capturing the energy and depth of graphic possibilities, explores the purpose and intent of a wealth of representational methods and techniques. Setting out a new and expanded field of design practice, connecting ideas and form, art and design, this book will contribute significantly to the resurgence of interest there is in landscape architecture around the world, helping students and practitioners alike to acquire new skills at the analogue/digital interface and to realize the full communicative potential of visual, graphic expression in design.
Kathryn Moore, IFLA President
