Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture

Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex systems. This curated volume spans academic and professional projects to form a snapshot of digital practices that aim to show how computation is a tool that goes beyond methods of representation and media. The book is organized in four sections; syntax, perception, employ, and prospective. The essays are written by leading academics and professionals and the sections examine the role of computational tools in landscape architecture through case studies, historical accounts, theoretical arguments, and nascent propositions.

• Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment
• Responsive Landscapes: Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture
• Toward an Urban Ecology: SCAPE / Landscape Architecture
• Dynamic Patterns: Visualizing Landscapes in a Digital Age
• AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper
• Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
• Thinking the Contemporary Landscape
• Local Code: 3,659 Proposals About Data, Design & the Nature of Cities
• Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design
• Infra Eco Logi Urbanism: A Project for the Great Lakes Megaregion