ABSTRACT
Multiplicity in photo-based representations for landscape architecture can be achieved by making work in combination. Combining photographs with other visual information has existed as long as the medium itself. David Hockney and photo collage and montage examples from Constructed Landscapes serve as primary examples. Two common metaphors in photography are also discussed: the window and the slice. The essay goes on to discuss the benefits and possibilities for breaking the single rectilinear frame as a means to expand complexity in representations for landscape architecture – as this is a better refection of the complexity of contemporary designs. By combining, experimenting and making visual representations with photography that include multiple images, multiple points of view, multiple edges and multiple spans of time, we are able to create a thick understanding of place and include complexity while manifesting design possibility.
