Landscape category: 1155 books
by Steven Cohan
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career. Appealing to students...
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike.
Here,...
The Renewable Energy Landscape
Preserving Scenic Values in our Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Winner of the 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Research Category)
Winner of the 2017 VT ASLA Chapter Award of Excellence (Communications Category)
The Renewable Energy Landscape is a definitive guide to understanding, assessing, avoiding, and minimizing scenic impacts as we transition to...
by Michael Littlewood
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, professionals and students designin external works. This volume covers water features and offers drawings detailed to scale, unlike many of the other books on the market which only deal in sketch forms.
Covers...
Representing Landscapes
A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method? What are the right choices to make? Are there right and wrong choices when it comes to presenting a particular environment in a particular way?
The choice of...
by Fred Swisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
We can no longer afford to waste water on landscaping. This doesn't mean we can't use any water.In my book SIMPLE LANDSCAPING, I explain simple and effective ways to approach design and construction. The green/sustainability movement is starting to merge with the tighter money times....
by Mary Adelaide Scipioni
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This accessible introduction to the culture, art, and science of landscape design is essential for the aspiring landscape connoisseur. It will quickly bring you up to speed on a range of topics such as design composition and media, microclimate, and sustainability. In a couple of hours, your understanding...
by Sarah Spooner
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Garden design evolved hugely during the Georgian period – as symbols of wealth and stature, the landed aristocracy had been using gardens for decades. Yet during the eighteenth century, society began to homogenise, and the urban elite also started demanding landscapes that would reflect their positions.
The...
by Ian D. Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history.
In...
by Michael Littlewood
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works. For this third edition it has been split into three volumes to give a greater
depth of coverage than ever...
by Janet Swailes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The act of field sketching allows us to experience the landscape first-hand – rather than reliance upon plans, maps and photographs at a distance, back in the studio. Aimed primarily at landscape architects, Janet Swailes takes the reader on a journey through the art of field sketching, providing...
Spon's Landscape Contract Handbook
A guide to good practice and procedures in the management of lump sum landscape contracts
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This indispensable manual for landscape work covers the documentation and management of landscape contracts. It is written for all those involved in the landscape industry.
Landscape Performance
Ian McHarg’s ecological planning in The Woodlands, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Ian McHarg’s ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate the performance of his projects. Using the framework of landscape performance assessment, this book demonstrates the long-term benefits of a renowned...
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity,...