Designing the Landscape: An Introductory Guide for the Landscape Designer - Softcover

Bertauski, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130330418 ISBN 13: 9780130330413

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

For introductory courses in landscape design.

This highly illustrative and affordable text covers practical points of the design process in a simple step-by-step format–from beginning (the client interview) to end (presentation). This format is concise, readily illustrated to facilitate learning and, most importantly, can be easily applied in the landscape design industry. The book focuses on residential design, although many of the concepts and steps can be applied to commercial projects as well. As each chapter represents a step in the design process, illustrations, photos, and software imaging visually aid the book concepts to further simplify learning.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Designing the Landscape: An Introductory Guide for the Landscape Designer takes the reader through the design process step-by-step. The text begins with meeting the client and proceeds to functional concepts, design principles, and plant and hardscape materials. Each chapter builds upon the previous one, giving the reader a clear understanding of how the chapters fit into each phase of the design process. The text concludes with the final product and how to effectively present it to the client.

Features:

• Numerous illustrations help aid readers' comprehension of the material
• Provides practical approaches to establishing a good client relationship as well as how to effectively present―or sell―the design
• Approaches design in a step-by-step fashion, helping readers to overcome the anxiety of the blank page
• Introduces the role computers play in the design process

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130330418
• ISBN 13: 9780130330413
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384