Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence - 4th Edition

Soft cover  496 pages  ISBN 0131293842      £59.00

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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.

Contents
1.The Typical Residential Site.
2. Outdoor Rooms.
3. Environmentally Responsive Design.
4. Design Process.
5. Meeting the Clients.
6. Site Measuring and Base Map Preparation.
7. Site and Design Program.
8. Functional Diagrams.
9. Preliminary Design and Design Principles.
10. Form Composition.
11. Spatial Composition.
12. Material Composition and Master Plan.
13. Special Project Sites.

Index.

"The strengths of this publication are its comprehensive coverage of the materials and the graphic illustrations of the concepts. We are not currently considering any other text for the course." — Philip Gibson, Ph.D., Gwinnett Technical Institute

"The competitive strength of this publication is its comprehensive nature. I have several books available to me on the subject of landscape design but they all pale in comparison to the content in Residential Landscape Architecture and the use of illustrations to reinforce points made in the text." — Martin R. McGann, Penn State

"(Booth and Hiss's text) illuminates design as a process rather than a "paint by the numbers" event, unlike many of the current technical texts. It is comprehensive and has depth... My colleague and I have team-taught this course for 18 years...Both of us feel strongly that this is the only text we have found that is suitable to the philosophy of our course." — M.E. Traer, North Carolina State University

• NEW - Reorganized and revised chapters.  Offers students a much more sound basis for thinking about environmental aspects of landscape design.
• NEW - Architecturally responsive design material emphasized throughout - Examines landscape designs and structures that blend with the existing house character.  Allows students to deal with the architectural character or style of a house throughout the design process much more easily.
• NEW - Re-written chapter on Meeting the Clients.  Orients important material to the student (rather than professional) and presents it in a slightly different light.
• NEW - Restructured and simplified material on functional diagrams.  Eliminates references to heights of spaces and streamlines and reorganizes the remaining coverage.
• NEW - Replaced abstract images with more realistic sketches - In Ch. 10 on Form Composition.  Illustrates examples of using principles in design forms and patterns.
• NEW - Added chapter on Special Project Sites.   Gives students guidelines and examples for dealing with 1)the corner site, 2)the wooded site, 3)the sloped site, and 4)the townhouse or condominium site, preparing them with on-the-job problem-solving skills.
• A practical approach.  Serves students with a design manual for those interested in gaining knowledge and developing skills in the design of landscapes for private residences.
• 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.
• Unique coverage of alternative design.  Promotes the development of this study at various levels in site design.
• Useful chapters on Functional Diagrams and Form Composition - Critical subjects in creating functionally and visually successful design solutions.  Explains how to develop esthetically pleasing design compositions using various forms, and gives special attention to the design patterns of the floors, walls, and ceilings of outdoor spaces.
• A major case study - Connects all design phases together.  Illustrates how new material is applied to previously learned material and gives students a real-world context to the material they are studying.