ABSTRACT
Few professions match architecture landscape architecture in their
need for graphic vehicles with which to mediate their ideas. In practice,
they require representations that are at once abstract and simplified, yet
legible and communicative; this is one characteristic that distinguishes the
design professions from other artistic or engineering fields. The mastery of
designing using pictorial or scaled representation adds immeasurably to
the landscape architect’s professional success [5-1]. Or, to put it another
way, although talented in solving spatial and formal problems, a landscape
architect does not function well professionally if he or she fails to develop
graphic models that communicate those ideas precisely and persuasively.
