Part of my development as a Landscape
Architect is finding my own style – and I think I can see one emerging.
Although my photoshop skills are not yet (we’ll be kind and say) ‘that good’, I am
finding out more and more what I like. I would love to be able to do truly good
photoshop visuals - the kind you see on
official competitions and landscape architect websites. I’m sure that will come
in time. Yet that’s not actually what I’m interested in pursuing. Below are
some images I completed for the most recent hand in - Design with Plants.
I like the bricolage, collagist effect
– I think its fun and edgy and thought provoking at the same time. I strongly
admire the bricolages and collage landscapes of Taktyk,
last year’s winners of the Topos Landscape Award. They comment that
bricolage can lead to "unpredictable and unexpected assemblages…This approach
beings great flexibility to multiple projects (in terms of scale and typology)
addressed within the practice, where a taste for the unstable and the versatile
is reflected in prospective scenarios…”
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| Discovering the opacity scale on photoshop.... Chimney Place - Calm |
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| Chimney Place - Wild |
You can tell its all a huge, fast paced, learning curve - there's only a matter of weeks - literally about 2 or 3 - between the top two images and these two images.
With my background in Architectural History
and History of Art, I am also influenced by the Orphist’s Robert and Sonia
Delaunay and notions of Bergsonian flux. The layering aesthetics of De Stijl
and the Bauhaus stir something inside me and I believe in the Collage City
postmodern theories of Colin Rowe. These are elements that lend themselves easily
to the collage method.
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| Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower 1909-1914 |
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| The Lonely Metropolitan by Herbert Bayer |
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