LANDSCAPE FOR ARCHITECTS

The design of landscapes requires a holistic approach but also in-depth specialist knowledge. In teaching and publications, however, the perspective of the generalist and concrete aspects of design are often neglected. “Landscape for Architects” is a design manual that is as comprehensive as it is practical and as holistic in its concept as it is lucid in detail. It presents a series of “questions” illustrated by abstract schematic drawings along with “answers” in the form of analytical drawings of case studies that aim to inspire creative reflection and exploration in the reader’s own design process.

"Kiefer and Neubauer’s legend, a thirty-six-pictogram spread atthe end of every volume, is a start to parallel Neurath and Arntz’sisotype visual language (with over 4,000 symbols). However, theplayfulness and diversity of the pictograms (many women, various races and non-humans) in the two ladies’ contemporary workstands in stark contrast to the more mechanical and dominantlymale components of the interwar works of the men.” Kelly Shanon in Journal of Landscape Architecture

Landscape for Architects | Landschaft für Architekten | Paisaje para arquitectos
Five volumes
English. German. Spanish
isbn 978-3-0356-1676-7 (Softcover)
isbn 978-3-0356-1726-9 (Hardcover)
Birkhäuser
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Position: Assistant Professor | ILA | Department Architecture | TU Braunschweig
Tasks: Author + Concept + Design + Illustration
Team: Anika Neubauer + Gabriele G. Kiefer
Photography: Nora Heinisch