Foundations of Landscape Architecture

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Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design

By Norman Booth

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Foundations of Landscape Architecture offers a visually engaging introduction to the essential principles of landscape architectural design. It explores how environments can be designed to meet diverse lifestyles, honour cultural heritage, and promote sustainability. The book is richly illustrated with over five hundred hand-rendered and digital drawings alongside photographs, demonstrating core concepts such as spatial language, typologies, and the organisation of space through orthogonal, angular, and circular forms. It covers a wide range of project types including parks, campuses, and memorials, providing a solid foundation for designers aiming to create functional and inspiring landscapes.
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This book is ideal for students, professionals, and lifelong learners involved or interested in landscape architecture and spatial design, seeking a foundational and visually rich resource.

One of the foremost objectives of landscape architectural design is to impart an organizational order in the landscape. Heavily illustrated, this enlightening book introduces the basic elements and principles of design, and then explores the spatial language used to organize and shape landscape architectural design.

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A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design

Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment. Foundations of Landscape Architecture introduces the foundational concepts needed to effectively integrate space and form in landscape design.

With over five hundred hand-rendered and digital drawings, as well as photographs, Foundations of Landscape Architecture illustrates the importance of spatial language. It introduces concepts, typologies, and rudimentary principles of form and space. Including designs for projects such as parks, campuses, and memorials, this text provides the core concepts necessary for designers to shape functional landscapes. Additionally, chapters discuss organisational and spatial design structures based on orthogonal forms, angular forms, and circular forms.

Helping students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike, Foundations of Landscape Architecture delivers a concrete understanding of landscape architectural design to inspire one's imagination for countless types of projects.

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"A standard text that anyone interested in spatial design would welcome on the bookshelf." – The Garden Design Journal, April 2012

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470635056

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 December 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Illustration: Photos: 100 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 1200 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 384

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Norman Booth

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A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment. Foundations of Landscape Architecture introduces the foundational concepts needed to effectively integrate space and form in landscape design. With over five hundred hand-rendered and digital drawings, as well as photographs, Foundations of Landscape Architecture illustrates the importance of spatial language. It introduces concepts, typologies, and rudimentary principles of form and space. Including designs for projects such as parks, campuses, and memorials, this text provides the core concepts necessary for designers to shape functional landscapes. Additionally, chapters discuss organizational and spatial design structures based on orthogonal forms, angular forms, and circular forms. Helping students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike, Foundations of Landscape Arch-itecture delivers a concrete understanding of landscape architectural design to inspire one's imagination for countless types of projects.