Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary

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Mapping has been one of the vital fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape previously few decades. Even as documenting this shift in representation from the fabric and physical description toward the depiction of the unseen and continuously immaterial, Cartographic Grounds takes a important view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to standard cartographic techniques to reimagine the manifestation and manipulation of the bottom itself.

Each of the ten chapters specializes in a single cartographic technique—sounding/spot elevation, isobath/contour, hachure/hatch, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross-section, line symbol, conventional sign—and illustrates it through beautiful maps and plans from notable designers and cartographers all through history, from Leonardo da Vinci to James Corner Field Operations. Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, introduces the book.

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