Parametric Design for Landscape Architects: Computational Techniques and Workflows

Book Description

Parametric Design for Landscape Architects provides a sequence of tutorial-based workflows for the creation and utilization of algorithmic tools calibrated toward the field of landscape architecture. Contemporary practice and projective theory in landscape architecture require the processing and design of data associated with complex systems to adequately represent composite, emergent scenarios.

Aligning to both traditional and nascent processes of analysis and digital modeling, this book unpacks and decodes the characterization of algorithmic-based automation, leveraging software that is widely accessible in both academia and professional practice. Curated throughout are workflows that apply to a multiplex of computation programs that widely support the design, analysis, and production of landscapes, primarily concentrated on digital modeling tools Grasshopper and Rhinoceros. It is a much-needed, visually accessible resource to aid in more efficient understanding and creation of tools that automate and re-examine traditional calculations, analyses, drawing standards, form-finding strategies, fabrication preparations, and speculative assessments/simulation.

This primer provides professionals and students with multifaceted skill-sets that, when applied in practice, expand and expedite conventional and speculative design workflows applicable to spatial design, and more specifically landscape architecture. The book includes over 200 full-colour drawings, images, and tables to illustrate and support examples throughout.

中文：

书名：景观设计师的参数设计：计算技术和工作流程

景观设计师的参数化设计它提供了一系列基于教程的工作流程，用于创建和使用针对风景园林领域进行校准的算法工具。当代风景园林的实践和投射理论要求处理和设计与复杂系统相关的数据，以充分表示复合的、紧急的场景。

与传统和新兴的分析和数字建模过程相一致，这本书拆解和解码了基于算法的自动化的特征，利用了在学术界和专业实践中广泛可用的软件。贯穿始终的是应用于广泛支持景观设计、分析和生产的多种计算程序的工作流，主要集中在数字建模工具Grasshop和Rhinoceros上。这是一种非常需要的可视资源，可帮助您更有效地了解和创建工具，以自动化和重新检查传统的计算、分析、绘图标准、找表策略、制造准备和推测性评估/模拟。

这本入门读物为专业人士和学生提供了多方面的技能集，当应用于实践时，扩展和加快了适用于空间设计，更具体地说是景观设计的传统和推测性设计工作流程。该书包括200多幅全彩图画、图像和表格，以说明和支持整个示例。