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Designing the Landscape : An Introductory Guide for the Landscape Designer
ISBN: 9780130330413 | 0130330418
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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For introductory courses in landscape design.This highly illustrative and affordable text covers practical points of the design process in a simple step-by-step format-from beginning (the client interview) to end (presentation). This format is concise, readily illustrated to facilitate learning and, most importantly, can be easily applied in the landscape design industry. The book focuses on residential design, although many of the concepts and steps can be applied to commercial projects as well. As each chapter represents a step in the design ... MORE
| Interview | |
| Finding work and interview clients | |
| Site Plan | |
| Taking measurements and drawing site plan | |
| Analysis | |
| Inventory and analysis of site | |
| Functional Principles | |
| Study of the useful, or functional, aspects of landscape | |
| Concept Plan | |
| Organizing the ground plane and developing a functional design | ... MORE |
| Design Principles | |
| Study of the components of visual interest, balance, connection and flow | |
| Preliminary Design | |
| Landscape design based on concept plan using generic materials | |
| Plants and Hardscapes | |
| An in-depth look at plant selection and hardscape materials | |
| Master Plan | |
| Putting together the final plan that specifies all material in design | |
| Presentation | |
| An organized and effective approach to presenting design to client | |
| Design Process | |
| Summary of the design process | |
| Plant and Hardscapes Resources | |
| Books, software and internet links | |
| Estimation | |
| An introduction on estimating materials in the design | |
| Computer Automated Design | |
| Plan drawing and image design software | |
| Butterfly Gardening | |
| Designing to attract butterflies | |
| Repelling Deer | |
| Designing to help reduce damage from deer | |
| Xeriscaping | |
| Practice of using native plants to reduce management inputs | |
| Hardiness Map | |
| Heat Zone Map | |
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