Cartographic grounds : projecting the landscape imaginary /

• Main Author: Desimini, Jill (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Waldheim, Charles (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]
• Subjects: Χαρτογραφία > Φιλοσοφία; Χαρτογραφία > Μεθοδολογία; Αξιολόγηση τοπίου; Σχεδίαση τοπίου

"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...

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.