Parametric Design for Landscape Architects: Computational Techniques and Workflows

Parametric Design for Landscape Architects is a tutorial-based book that provides workflows for creating and using algorithmic tools in landscape architecture. It aligns with traditional and nascent processes of analysis and digital modeling, leveraging widely accessible software such as Grasshopper and Rhinoceros. The book offers a visually accessible resource to aid in understanding and creating tools that automate and re-examine traditional calculations, analyses, drawing standards, form-finding strategies, fabrication preparations, and speculative assessments/simulation. It provides professionals and students with skill-sets that expand and expedite conventional and speculative design workflows, particularly in landscape architecture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 206 pages
Publication date: 06 September 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Parametric Design for Landscape Architects offers a comprehensive guide to the creation and application of algorithmic tools tailored specifically to the field of landscape architecture. In today's contemporary practice, landscape architects must handle and design data related to complex systems to effectively depict composite and emergent scenarios. This book aligns with both traditional and emerging processes of analysis and digital modeling, providing a deep understanding of algorithmic-based automation. It leverages widely accessible software in academia and professional practice, unpacking and decoding the characteristics of automation driven by algorithms.

Throughout, the book showcases workflows that apply to a diverse range of computation programs, primarily focusing on digital modeling tools such as Grasshopper and Rhinoceros. This resource is highly valuable as it aids in a more efficient comprehension and development of tools that automate and re-examine traditional calculations, analyses, drawing standards, form-finding strategies, fabrication preparations, and speculative assessments/simulation.

This primer equips professionals and students with a diverse range of skill sets that, when applied in practice, enhance and expedite conventional and speculative design workflows applicable to spatial design, with a specific emphasis on landscape architecture. The book comprises over 200 full-color drawings, images, and tables to illustrate and support examples throughout, making it an invaluable resource for both practitioners and enthusiasts.

Weight: 758g
Dimension: 211 x 279 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367195304