Singularly highlights landscape architectural elements with clear design principles! Designed to be used as a helpful resource by individuals beginning their careers, Basic Elements of Landscape Architectural Design presents the thoughts and key design theories fundamental to landscape architecture in simple words and illustrations. Still available from Waveland Press, this highly regarded sourcebook offers the vocabulary, significance, characteristics, potential uses, and design guidelines for landform, plant materials, buildings, pavement, site structures, and water in landscape architectural design. It will help your students overcome common mistakes and misconceptions typical in the early phases of their design career and will heighten their understanding and awareness of the major physical components of the outdoor environment.
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Norman K. Booth, FASLA is a registered landscape architect, photographer, outdoor enthusiast, and professor emeritus at The Ohio State University where he taught landscape architectural design and site planning courses for 31 and half years at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It is his belief that good landscape design is a hands-on craft that is founded on a thorough understanding of fundamental design principles and theories. His various writings have evolved directly from classroom lectures and studio teaching where comprehensible language accompanied by clear graphic illustrations and photographs where essential to communicating and learning landscape architectural design.
Residential Landscape Architecture (coauthored with James Hiss) is in its 6th edition (published April 2011) and features color graphics and photographs throughout the book. In addition, Chapter 6 (Site Measuring and Base Map Preparation) and Chapter 12 (Material Composition and Master Plan) have been extensively rewritten and illustrated to address current technologies, practices, and available materials. There a numerous other changes throughout the book.
Foundations of Landscape Architecture was published (November 2011) and is Booth's most recent work. The book is intended as an introductory text for landscape architecture though the practitioner will find numerous design examples and fundamental design principles to refresh one's approach to design. Information about the book can be found on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Foundations-of-Landscape-Architecture/281245038568463) or by the Look Inside feature here on Amazon.
