MEET THE SPEAKER

Anna
Thurmayr

Head and Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Manitoba
 

Anna Thurmayr initiated her career in landscape architecture with a degree from the Technical University of Munich and completed vocational training in desktop publishing and multimedia with a certificate. She has flourished as lead designer and project manager on many high-profile projects in Germany, China, and Canada. She has mastered fundamental knowledge and technical expertise in landscape design, project organization, project implementation, and visual communication.  

Thurmayr’s research focuses on her particular interest in navigating challenges between conception and construction. Her publications seek to demonstrate that technique and nature, as well as function and aesthetics, are not contradictions.  

Thurmayr co-founded Straub Thurmayr Landscape Architects, an award-winning design practice founded in 2000. She is also a Professor and Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba. 

SESSION DESCRIPTION

Strikingly Genuine: Blending Technical Skills, Visual Poetry, and True-Scaled Renderings

This presentation illustrates graphical experiments representing design projects and their sensuous experience, primarily in 2D. In all examples, the rendering inspiration, photo editing skills, and the interaction of bitmap and  
vector images have been vital to creating unique site plans with spatial depth and tactile atmosphere. Switching between old styles and new technologies or analog and digital rendering possibilities resulted in cutting-edge communication, craving custom texture libraries and instantaneous image manipulation in 2D and 3D.