Landscape category: 1155 books
Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards
Principles, Guidelines, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
SUPERB EXECUTION RELIES UPON RIGOROUS PROJECT DOCUMENTATION
A project will only be built as well as it is documented. This publication focuses on the key documentation needs of the landscape architectural design and construction documentation process. That includes both "design documentation"...
Design Readiness for Landscape Architects
Drawing Exercises that Generate Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Demands on landscape architecture students’ time are many and varied – when is there a chance to just sketch, and is it worth dedicating your time to the pursuit of drawing? This book shows how in short bursts you can build up your design skills using quick, relaxed sketches, which form the basis...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 1 Geo-Architecture Wandering in the Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book analyzes forms of architectures within the frame concept of geo-architecture, and looks into the interaction of architecture and its environment. It starts by discussing the collisions between architecture and geography, humanity, as well as other architectures and reflects on the ancient...
Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design
Urban Water Features
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Following on from the author’s previous book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces, Steps and Margins, this book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Urban Water Features, provides clear instruction for the construction of small to medium scale water...
by Theresa Mattor, Lucie Teegardeb
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Frederick Law Olmsted and others saw the landscape as it was and enhanced it, instead of imposing rigid design upon it. Groundbreaking landscape architects Beatrix Farrand and Fletcher Steele, among others, were brought to Maine by patrons, and the resulting public parks, campuses, institutional grounds,...
by Jonathan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The catalyst to this tradition was the simultaneous and interdependent emergence in the eighteenth century of new...
How to Start a Landscaping Business: A Quick Start Guide on Landscape Design for Beginners
Secrets to Landscaping Made Easy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
**UPDATED FOR 2019:**
How to Start a Landscaping Business: A Quick Start Guide on Landscape Design for Beginners
Contents include:
$1000+ In One Day Working With Plants?
What Does Your Landscaping Plan Need?
Not All Landscaping Software Is Created Equal
Find Yourself A Great Landscaping...
The Cultured Landscape
Designing the Environment in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives on contemporary themes from a wide base of knowledge....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Well-being is now firmly established as an overarching theme of key concern to all professionals that work, manage or design the environment. However, well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue rooted in the ways that we encounter, perceive and interpret the environment. No single discipline...
Moving Heaven and Earth
Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This beautifully illustrated book, with the vast majority of illustrations photographed by the author, makes a fitting tribute to the world-famous 18th century landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) in his Tercentenary year. Moving Heaven and Earth reveals the driven polymath...
European Landscape Architecture
Best Practice in Detailing
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Drawing together case studies from all over Europe, this text explores the relationship between the overall idea of the landscape architecture for a site and the design of details.
Examining concept sketches and design development drawings in relation to the details of the design, the book...
Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men
Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Lancelot “Capability” Brown is often thought of as the innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, naturalistic style of landscape design, but he was in fact only one of many landscape designers in Georgian England. Published to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Brown’s...
Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health
Open Space: People Space 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to understand...
Across the Open Field
Essays Drawn from English Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."
So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself...