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Learning from the Nolli Map: Representing the Landscape through Figure-Ground

César Torres Bustamante
Landscape Journal, January 2021, 39 (1) 39-53; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.39.1.39
César Torres Bustamante
Associate professor of landscape architecture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, whose research interests include landscape representation, mapping, diagramming, and visualizing temporal phenomena. He earned a B.Arch. from Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico, and his MLA and PhD from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches design studios, visualization, and 3D courses, in which he experiments with conventional and innovative representation techniques and media.
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