Landscape category: 1155 books
Responsive Landscapes
Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualised. This is the first book to rationalize interactive architecture and responsive technologies through the lens...
Climate-Wise Landscaping
Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire – but we're already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex, and can leave us as individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done.
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by Charlie B. Lapointe
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
What They Donít Want You To Know About Backyard Landscape, Front Yard Landscape, Ideas Low Maintenance Landscaping Ideas, Landscape Lighting, Landscape Architecture and Landscape Photography
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Representing Landscape Architecture offers a broad investigation of how the designed landscape is and has been represented: for design study, for criticism and even for its realization.
It has been said that we can only realize what we can imagine. But in order to realize we must convey ideas...
Flights of Imagination
Aviation, Landscape, Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers,...
by Trudi Entwistle, Edwin Knighton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Visual Communication for Landscape Architecture demonstrates not only how and where a range of visual communication skills are needed to inform a design process, but also why they are essential in order to make presentations both informative and memorable. It illustrates how representational techniques...
Sustainable Landscape Planning
The Reconnection Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book takes as its starting point the need to examine critically the case for landscape reconnection. It looks at alleged disconnections and their supposed consequences. It explores the arguments about reconnecting the natural and human elements of whole landscapes. More broadly, it considers...
Modeling the Environment
Techniques and Tools for the 3D Illustration of Dynamic Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
A single-source guide to harnessing the power of 3D visualization tools for analysis and representation of landscapes
Current technology allows designers to model environmental phenomena and space in new and exciting ways that go beyond the two-dimensional plane. The models, illustrations,...
by Andreas Kipar, Giovanni Sala, LAND
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
For 25 years the LAND studio has promoted a project for the Landscape - in its fullest and culturally richest sense - in both Italy and Europe.
In primis its founders, Andreas Kipar and Giovanni Sala, have introduced a vision of the “Landscape” that is not the two-dimensional scenic, picturesque...
Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Finding Center in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The successful realization of diversity, resilience, usefulness, profitability, or beauty in landscape design requires a firm understanding of the stakeholders’ values. This collection, which incorporates a wide variety of geographic locations and cultural perspectives, reinforces the necessity...
Landscape Modernism Renounced
The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save...
Landscape Management and Maintenance
A Guide to Its Costing and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
With increased public attention focused on the environment and government legislation on competition, landscape managers are coming under increasing pressure to adopt a more disciplined analytical approach to their work. Landscape Management and Maintenance will help you to set objectives for the...
by John Timberlake
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Landscape and the Science Fiction Imaginary is an original and ambitious exploration of science fiction as a visual cultural discourse. This book argues that a serious account has yet to be given of the key role of the visual in a wider science fiction culture, both in its effects and its potentials....
by Paul Selman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside. However, whilst this still remains important, there is a growing recognition of the multi-functionality of rural areas, and the need to encourage sustainable use of the whole countryside rather...