The Landscape Lighting Book (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

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“…a thoroughly comprehensive, detailed guide to all stages of designing, installing and maintaining the lighting of gardens and landscapes.” (The Lighting Journal, Nov/Dec 2005)

"...many bright ideas and extremely detailed practical advice...." (Town and Country, June 2006) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Description

A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements--plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 29, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471527262
• ISBN-13: 978-0471527268
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,141,058 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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77 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars expert opinion, July 12, 2000

By	Joseph T. Masciotti (Reading, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Still the best book for the professional. Invaluable resource for architects, landscape architects and landscape lighting designers. Broad and deep with plenty of technical information. I purchased this book in 1992 and I bought it again today (an electrician friend "lost" my original copy). A second edition (if planned) should include better information about transformer regulation (the ability of a low voltage lighting transformer to maintain 12v under load) and voltage drop (the dreaded decrease in voltage through the main supply cable) which are presented as formulae rather than actual measurements. Great photographs mostly of large scale projects. This book should be in every outdoor lighting designer's library.

There is a second edition (Wiley 2005) of the book revised and updated by the author to reflect changes and improvements in techniques and equipment. The second edition is easily recognized by the illustrated four color cover; the original had an illustrated dust cover (missing from the last run of the first edition) by the cover itself was plain black.

I have both editions and consider them a bargain in terms of concentrated relevant information.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Landscape Lighting 101, April 16, 2006

By	P. Elliott (Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Landscape Lighting book, by Janet Moyer, provides both an academic and practical level of landscaping lighting knowledge. Another good book, if you can find it, is the Ortho's book of How to Design and Install Outdoor Lighting.

In comparison, the Ortho book has more colorful pictures and offers a very colorful education - I'd say, more or less at a good high school level. If you want more of college level introduction to landscape lighting - perhaps, to start a business or to broaden your knowledge, The Landscape Lighting book is the book for you.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Art and Craft of Landscape Lighting, March 7, 2006

By	Thomas M. Williams (Troy, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Landscape Lighting Book (Hardcover)

The second edition of Janet Lennox Moyer's THE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BOOK is an absolute necessity for everybody who works in landscape lighting or who is seriously interested in creating their own garden lighting. Ms Moyer has greatly revised and expanded the color plates and Chapter 4, "The Design Process - Documenting and Installing Landscape Lighting" as well as writing an entirely new Chapter 5 "Follow-up Work - Record Documents and Project Maintenance." These changes and additions and the many other updates make the new edition well worth the purchase price.

First published in 1992, THE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BOOK has served as the single and indispensable reference for the landscape lighting industry. It has offered all new landscape lighting practitioners guidance and provided an emerging industry the foundation necessary on which to build solid practice. While there is a wealth of other books that offer how-to help and publish pretty pictures, none of them even attempt to define and explain professional practice for the landscape lighting industry with Ms Moyer's authority and confidence.

THE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BOOK is not an easy book to read but it is well worth the effort. Once you understand the theory behind the short cuts and rules-of-thumb that other how to books offer, you are free to create your own. With the freedom you gain when you understand and can apply those fundamental principals and concepts to your landscape lighting, you become like the cook who ignores the printed recipe and creates a masterpiece of culinary art.