Enter the New Landscape: Thinking, Life, and Experimental Design

Author: Liu Hua
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book integrates thought, life, and experimental design into an organically connected whole. The thought section is titled Fifty Design Topics, adopting a form of self-reflection and self-conversation, touching upon theoretical and philosophical issues of landscape design at various levels. These are the author's candid expressions of daily thoughts. The life section is titled The Sweet Spring of Life, where the author elaborates on the original visual information sources that inspire design concepts. Since artistic thinking and observation must be transformed into design entities, the third section, experimental design, is titled Turning Thoughts into Models. The author selects intriguing themes from past design tasks and engineering projects, stepping beyond the immature market constraints and limitations. With a broader and freer will, as well as more avant-garde and purified design artistic goals, the author conducts a series of modern, artistic, and scientific landscape experimental designs through virtual and imaginative means. The unique feature of this book lies in the author's primary use of meticulously crafted self-made models to express design ideas, showcase design effects, and present the physical space and imagery of the models to readers through artistic photography. This approach conveys the design concepts and artistic essence vividly, intuitively, and authentically from all perspectives, demonstrating the unique charm of expressing concepts through imagery. Additionally, through text, the author scientifically, objectively, and comprehensively describes the preliminary analysis, conceptual design, model-making, and photographic landscape effects of each work. This reflects the entire thought process and workflow of the author in visualizing the effects of a design project or topic. All arguments, viewpoints, and design ideas in the book stem from the author's independent thinking. The author hopes to advocate for original and pragmatic design approaches, exemplify the professional academic life of designers, and ignite the creative sparks of modern landscape designers. Therefore, this book is a design life manual suitable for students, teachers, designers, theoretical researchers, and all individuals interested in landscape aesthetics.