Course description This course is an introduction to 3D modeling for landscape architects. In this course you will develop a solid foundation in 3D modeling by building a detailed digital model of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt houses and its landscape. You will learn a range of 3D modeling techniques including 3D drafting, solid modeling, surface modeling, mesh modeling, and billboards. You will learn how to digital fabricate physical models of buildings and landscapes using 3D printing. You will also learn how to make graphics with 3D rendering and photomontage. Each week you will spend a day in a workshop learning new methods and a day developing your projects. You will work in small teams and will present an exhibition and a booklet of your models and renderings at the end of the course.
Fieldtrip There will be an optional fieldtrip to New York City to view the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection at Columbia's Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library led by Prof. Desmond.
Syllabus | Spring 2018
Assignments | Projects
Resources | Geospatial data sources
Libraries | Xfrog
Software | Rhino | ArcGIS | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign
Plugins | RhinoTerrain | Neon
Tutorials | lecture.lsu.edu/
- Terrain modeling
- Solid modeling
- Surface modeling
- 3D rendering
- Section-elevations
- 3D printing
- Billboards
- Photomontage
Find the class network drive at
\\desn-knox.lsu.edu\Landscape-Classes on Windows
or smb://desn-knox.lsu.edu/Landscape-Classes on Mac.
Open educational materials licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by Brendan Harmon 🐵. The license does not apply to logos, fonts, linked material, quotations, or reprinted images by other authors, which may have different licenses. The fonts used in this repository are licensed under the SIL Open Font License by their authors. The syllabus is based on a latex template by Kieran Healy hosted at https://github.com/kjhealy/latex-custom-kjh.