TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desimini,Jil
AU  - Desimini,Jil
AU  - Waldheim,Charles
TI  - Cartographic grounds: projecting the landscape imaginary 
SN  - 9781616893293 (hardback)
U1  - 526 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Princeton Architectural Press , 
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Landscape assessment
KW  - Landscape design
KW  - Landscapes
KW  - DESIGN / Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - REFERENCE / Atlases
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
N1  - Architecture
N2  - "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 critical view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to traditional cartographic techniques to reimagine the manifestation and manipulation of the ground itself. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a single cartographic technique--sounding/ spot elevation, isobath/contour, hachure/hatch, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross-section, line symbol, conventional sign-- and illustrates it through beautiful maps and plans from notable designers and cartographers throughout history, from Leonardo da Vinci to James Corner Field Operations. Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, introduces the book, a veritable atlas of contemporary maps and techniques that is as beautiful as it is useful"--
ER  -