LAA 2340 :: ::

Landscape Architecture Courses

LAA 2340: Rendering and Presentation
2 credits, lab

As a parallel course to LAA2360 (Introduction to Landscape Architecture Studio), students will develop appropriate techniques in landscape graphics, rendering and presentation format. The material will have lecture and desk demonstrations of all types of hand and computer graphic techniques.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Diagram Graphics
• Analysis Graphics
• Plan Graphics
  • trees: evergreen, canopy, specimen, flowering, massing & individual
  • shrubs & ground covers texture studies, massing studies
  • hardscape
  • people, site furniture, etc.
• Section/Elevation Graphics
  • trees silhouettes, structure, structure & foilage, texture studies
  • shrubs & ground covers
  • hardscape
  • people, site furniture, etc.
  • labeling techniques
• Perspective Sketching
  • orthographic projection and aerial perspective (tilt-up)
  • topographic changes, trees, shrubs & ground covers, structures, people/site furniture Special Graphics
  • collage, xeroxing, photography, charcoal, ebony pencil, shadows studies, texture studies, material studies, mood drawings
• Drafting
  • materials (paper, pencil, ink, etc.)
  • techniques
• Lettering (weekly exercises)
  • labeling
  • developing title bands (using word processor)
• Sheet Organization
  • compositional issues
  • integrating text & drawings
  • working drawings
  • competitions