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- Drawing an Idea: Aerial PerspectiveCommunity Recreation Space, Ceres Camp, California
- Abstract
- This contribution discusses the tension between drawing as idea and drawing as experience in a line drawing for a community recreation space by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo from 1940. While the bird’s-eye perspective of the drawing contains little information about the ground-level experience of the design, lacking any people or particular activities, the precise perspective does invite the viewer to insert themselves mentally into the landscape. In contrast to photorealistic renderings, which emphasise the experience of a certain space, the drawing of Eckbo instead prioritises the understanding of a space as idea, before entering its experience.
- Citation
- Treib, M. (2020). Drawing an Idea: Aerial Perspective. Community Recreation Space, Ceres Camp, California. The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism, OASE, (107), 107–109. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/107/DrawinganIdea
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- Editors of this issue
- Frits Palmboom, Bruno Notteboom, Kornelia Dimitrova, Bart Decroos
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- Nitin Bathla & Sumedha Garg, Paul Broekhuizen, Chiara Cavalieri, Kees Christiaanse, Elke Couchez, Roberto Damiani, Koenraad Danneels, Gini Lee & Antonia Besa, Gianna Lobosco, William Mann, Julie Marin & Bruno De Meulder, Frits Palmboom, Sandra Parvu, Pieter Schengenga, Holger Schurk, Marialessandra Secchi & Marco Voltini, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Marc Treib, Bram van Kaathoven
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