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This week’s Sketchy Saturday top 10.

Welcome to this week’s exciting edition of Sketchy Saturday; this week’s sketches show a great diversity in style with some Sketchy Saturday regulars throwing their hat into the ring for another attempt at top spot.

Certainly sketching and free style hand techniques are skills that will always be appreciated, regardless of whether you are a student or professional so let yourself be inspired by this week’s top 10 and submit your own sketch for next week’s edition of Sketchy Saturday.

10. by Yingying Tu, Chinese student of Landscape Architecture

By Yingying Tu

” The sketch was made on plain A4 paper with marker pens and colour pencils. It is a picture I imagined: A set of parterre plants as a prospect,wooden boardwalks around the central pool. A square on the left and a lawn on the right. There are trees and mountains in the distance.Hard elements stay in harmony with soft and create a brisk atmosphere.”

9. by Monika Magoń, fourth year student of landscape architecture at the University of Rzeszów, Poland

By Monika Magoń

“This was made with a pencil technique. The drawing shows the sea coast. Both the technique and subject matter are very close to me.”

8. by Sarayut Chanachai (Bay), freelance landscape architect , Maejo university, Thailand

By Sarayut Chanachai

“We had only one night to prepare our full package presentation for the client for a new Shopping center design in Chengdu ,China. The concept is about stars and champagne glasses, colors and celebrations, so we made the shading canopy and sculpture in a champagne glass shape with colorful lighting in the SoHo area – I started to make quick sketches. To represent a sense of place we use a sketchy style and variety of colors to make the feeling of movement and fun – material used Black ink pen and Marker”

7. by Steven Page

By Steven James Page

“This is a conceptual charcoal sketch from the Scottsdale, AZ desert.”

6. by Partizan arif younus, Northern Iraq (Kurdistan)

By Partizan Arif Younus

“It’s a drawing perspective of a monastery which has been abandoned. Now it’s an architectural faculty of GAU (university) and we are restoring the place and so now we have a design studio project over there. The drawing’s name is “revitalization” I’m trying to bring life again into the monastery by catching those dead souls in the sky by that iron feature which has been there for a long time.”

5. by Juliana Lalaj, architecture student, Coventry University, United Kingdom

By Juliana Lalaj

“As a final year, we have to choose a topic and write our dissertation about it. This is one of the buildings I have to analyse, so I made sketches to illustrate my dissertation. The building is the National Art Gallery of Albania. I have used pencils (2B-2H depending on the shadows), sitting in front of the building for some hours.”

4. by Jesus Palafox Garcia, Architect, Mexico

“The monumental architecture is exciting, I worked many years in monument restoration. When the time allows I’m drawing. This drawing, is the Cathedral of the City of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. Technique: Pencil and watercolor on paper.”

By Jesus Palafox Garcia

3. by Amaury Martins Neto, landscape architect , agronomist engineer , São Paulo – Brasil

By Amaury Martins Neto

“I think the visualization process is as important as the design itself. With that in mind I made this sketch to illustrate for my clients how the facade will look like when the garden gets concluded. It is a hand drawing and colored with copic markers and I did some final adjustments on photoshop.”

2. by Steven James Page, background as a golf course design consultant, Phoenix, AZ, USA

By Steven James Page

“The sketch is a perspective watercolor using a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, Derwent watercolor pencils, Winsor & Newton brushes (3/4 inch flat, number 12 round, number 4 round, and mop brush), on Strathmore 400 series 11×15 inch 140lb paper. It was inspired by a photograph my mother took recently while traveling in the UK and is a gift for her.”

1. by Fred M Tabajonda, Landscape Designer, Philippines

By Fred M Tabajonda

“This sketch was done in pen and ink and washed with watercolour, This was conceived in an oriental design for a casual dining far east restaurant showing gazebos for sitting and wooden bridge over the lily pond.”

10 Great Apps for Landscape Architects – Part 2

The second edition to our hit article featuring apps. to make your life as a landscape architect easier.

We are spoiled for choice when it comes to apps — they range anywhere from recording our sleep cycle to reminding us to brush our teeth. Apps are constantly being developed to make our lives more interesting, if not easier. The apps for architecture and landscape architecture are plentiful, adapted to our habits from desk to field research and everything in between. In this article, I hope to show you some apps that made my academic life a bit easier and provided a more fascinating and different approach to projects.

Apps for landscape architects

1. Photosynth

Photosynth stiches together numerous images of an area and puts it into one file, creating a panoramic picture. The app takes the images from left to right, up to down, to create a photographic orb. On field trips, I found this app very useful for recording the space in order to get a better feel for it when I returned for desk study.

2. Behance and Behance Creative Portfolio

Behance is a site to display and discover online portfolios from across the artistic board, from categories such as Photography, Graphic Design, and, of course, Architecture. There are two apps, both by Behance: The first app is the site; the second is Creative Portfolio, which allows students and professionals to upload to the site, showcasing their portfolios.

3. Mini Scanner

This app has saved me many a time in the library! It is a simple app in which you can “scan” text or pictures and turn them into simple black and white drawings that are clear to read. The app is free, but you can upgrade it and gain the ability to email your images. I found this app very useful when I had small paragraphs of text to use, but didn’t want to waste paper photocopying. This is a definite favorite of mine.

4. Virtual Sketchpads-Paper by 53 and SketchBook by Autodesk

These apps are virtual sketchpads, designed to replicate a paper sketchpad. Both apps have an ease of options, allowing natural flow of the virtual pencil or pen. I find it works well even on the iPhone, but I would recommend a stylus. Paper by 53 is solely for iPad.

5. iRhino 3D

This app allows you to interact with your 3D models made through Rhino 3D from your portable device. There are some constraints, as you must shade your model in Rhino before opening it in the app, and there is a file size limit of about 50MB.

6. Google Drive/SkyDrive

In relation to your choice of email, these apps allow easy sharing of work and a peaceful mind. Whether it is my hard drive breaking down or, in a more recent situation, sending files that I couldn’t send through normal email due to size constraints — i.e portfolios, these are unbelievably useful. I have gotten into the habit of saving all my projects onto Google Drive after crits, and it really gives me peace of mind.

7. Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader is a simple and familiar app that allows interaction across various platforms. You can open documents directly as they are sent. It is very user friendly, with easy functions, and allows easy input and editing of existing information.

8. Dirr’s Shrub and Tree Finder

This app is a pocket version of the renowned Dirr’s book. Although this app is quite pricey, it seems like a very comprehensive app, with a variety of search options. This app is more for reference than plant identification, but allows a large, helpful book to be condensed into an application on your phone.

9. Evernote

This app makes life in general easier! Although this is not a landscape-orientated app, we all need a bit of organization, and this app is here to help. It allows you to save, sync, and share files and, with an upgrade, you can take your notes offline.

10. Bluebeam Revu

The perfect app for PDF creation, markup, editing, and collaboration for a paperless workflow. Also, ideal for punch lists and simple to navigate.

Apps are becoming increasingly popular in the world of design, and certainly are certainly going to continue to influence the design process. With hundreds to choose from, and new creations daily, the future of apps for designers is bright!

Central Park of Hunnan Axis, By Niek Roozen Loosvan Vliet, with: Urhahn Urban Design and Landscape Institute Shenyang, Shenyang, China

China is making huge efforts to improve its relationship with water — our most precious resource. This is due to its historical importance to the country’s development, as we have seen in the article Is China Transforming its Relationship with Water? A Look at the Aiyi River Landscape Park, . In Hunnan Axis Central Park, it is no different – water is beautifully represented throughout the park, sometimes portrayed as calm and serene in the form of ponds, or as vigorous and lively in the form of water jets. The truth is, this dynamic element can create stunning aesthetic results in the urban scene (and even energize wealth luck to the surrounding neighborhoods).