Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence  

by Booth

Synopsis
For courses in Landscape Design. This text was written for students who are beginning their design careers, as well as those currently practicing residential design. This text provides students with the quality fundamentals of residential site design - exploring functional and artistic elements, with a focus on appreciation of quality and updated standards for site development, maintenance techniques and training. It clearly illustrates and discusses the actual procedures and underlying principles utilized by experienced residential site designers.

Features and Benefits...

• Nearly 500 illustrations - In the form of plans, sections, elevations, diagrams and perspectives. Shows students the application of material presented.
• A realistic step-by-step process for developing functionally logical and esthetically pleasing design solutions, teaches students to be sensitive to clients desires and wishes, their house, and their property.
• A focus on the process of design. Demonstrates this process by following, explaining, and illustrating how it is used in one real-world project at critical points in most of the chapters of the book
• Guidelines for working with a client - Material is presented from a designers approach to residential design; program development; and project presentation at various stages. Outlines the items that need to be discussed with and presented to a client and provides students with this important business perspective on landscape design.
• An underlying “outdoor room” approach to residential site design. Discusses what outdoor rooms are, how they can be created, how they can be designed into a site, and how to select and compose materials to furnish them.