ASPECTS [of] Design Representation

Abstract

For ASPECT Studios, landscape representation is integral to design processes. Consequently, there is no identifiable graphic ‘style’ for this multi-studio practice which instead considers representation as a suite of critical ‘techniques’ for exploring and generating design outcomes. This position can be traced to the origins of the practice in the generational changes occurring in landscape architecture in mid-1990s Melbourne. Many of the now studio leaders are graduates of the RMIT landscape program which was internationally influential in advancing the role of landscape representation from a passive image of the designer’s predetermined vision (constructed in sketch books, the back of nap..