2024-05-04T08:20:57-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/51881738/rediscovering-the-deep-section Nam Henderson 2012-06-18T22:30:00-04:00 >2012-06-19T07:58:45-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/tv/tvoefd9kptmh60fe.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Whereas other forms of architectural representation may better communicate the formal or aesthetic concerns of a project&mdash;whether a project is &ldquo;naturalistic, rectilinear, curvilinear, formal, or informal&rdquo;&mdash;sectional drawings cut right past the plan aesthetic. Able to be drawn quickly and early in the design process, sections offer a powerful generative, communicative and analytical tool.</p></em><br /><br /><p> For the <a href="http://landscapeurbanism.com/issues/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Winter 2011 edition of landscape urbanism </a>&nbsp;Stephanie Carlisle and Nicholas Pevzner explore the performative ground and representational meaning of the deep section. They define three types of deep section&mdash;the landscape transect, the structural section and the sequential section - and their role in shaping a deep urbanism.</p>