“Designers have embraced the film and game industry’s digital tools for creating ultra-real landscape images but neglect the rich sources of abstraction and phenomenological experience of landscape manifest in late twentieth and recent contemporary art.”
Katie Kingery-Page and Howard Hahn, “The aesthetics of digital representation: realism, abstraction, and kitsch”, Journal of Landscape Architecture (2012)
A small set of sources for antidotes to the neglect that Kingery-Page and Hahn identify:
+ A project by Farah Aliza Badaruddin at the Bartlett School of Architecture, featured on BLDGBLOG.
+ Cloudz Watching is a tumblr of current architecture student work, primarily American and with an emphasis on the Midwest. Often cheeky.
+ But Does It Float is a visual catalog of contemporary art, often landscape-themed.
+ The President’s Medals Student Awards are the Royal Institute of British Architects’ annual awards for student work; while these are architectural awards, not landscape awards, the quality of the representations featured is typically very high and the student work often features a landscape sensibility.
+ The work of Luis Callejas, including the recently-released Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls. Before founding his own office, LCLA, Callejas was formerly one of the leaders of Paisajes Emergentes.
+ The New Aesthetic and Glitch News, two tumblrs documenting abstracted and erroneous overlaps between the digital and the physical. Read more about the conceptual underpinnings of the New Aesthetic at Wired.
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