Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence (3rd Edition)

Written by registered landscape artists, this book provides readers with the quality fundamentals of residential site design—exploring functional and artistic elements, and focusing 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. Chapter topics cover the typical residential site, outdoor rooms, environmentally responsive design, design process, meeting the clients, site measuring and base map preparation, site study and design program, functional diagrams, preliminary design and design principles, form composition, spatial composition, material composition and master plan, and special project sites. For those individuals beginning design careers, as well as for those currently practicing residential design who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge.