From documents to directives

Craig Reschke
Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies, eds., Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture
Routledge, 2018

“While commercial software is changing the way the construction industry thinks about manipulating the Earth’s surface, it is not the technological advancements that contribute to faster landscape change. Instead, the evolution of techniques are simply the symptoms of an ideological shift, one in which we move from thinking about the construction process as a series of linear steps or the passing of a baton to an open flow of three-dimensional information that is accessible by all agents involved in the project.”

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