"Outside the Not So Big House" offers a unified source of design advice about making the indoors and outdoors work together. Through the unique pairing of bestselling author and residential architect Sarah Susanka and landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy, two highly qualified experts teach us how to think in a new way ...
This companion book to the much-beloved "Western Garden Book" is packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, and addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges and solutions for the West.
This textbook provides students with a comprehensive introduction to all types of contemporary residential and commercial landscaping and acquaints them with the skills needed to enter the rapidly growing landscaping business. Basic principles of design, installation and maintenance are developed with emphasis on the philosophy of landscape ...
For courses in Landscape Design. 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 ...
Need a handbook to your architect's business or studies? Struggling with your latest DIY project? Interested in the art of architecture? This classic work, now in its fifth edition, covers every aspect of architecture and landscape architecture. Ranging from ancient times to contemporary trends, it adopts a truly international perspective, ...
Demonstrates how to create a water garden from scratch or prefabricated moulding. The book also offers guidance on plants and fish, and moves onto raised ponds, streams and waterfalls.
Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they are there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, ...
Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America's greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls ...
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! "Landscape Graphics" is the architect's ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design ...
For undergraduate courses in Landscape Design and Landscape Architecture. This book provides a comprehensive view of the landscape design process as it applies to the professional landscape designer. Its coverage includes design analysis, study of land forms and planning of land form manipulation, area creation and circulation, environmental ...
Since the mid-19th century, the United States has been transformed from a rural society of small communities into an urban nation where most people live in cities. Surprisingly, writes Alexander von Hoffman, this transformation has not destroyed "local attachments" and created an impersonal atomized society. Instead, these attachments have ...
Ambrose provides a concise overview of perhaps the foremost institution of military education, the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He covers its beginnings in the President Jefferson and its unique mission to prepare a corps of officers to serve, and offers profiles of the superintendents who shaped it and the cadets who ...
Bare, stark swimming pools - those rectangular concrete holes in the ground surrounded by a chain link fence - are going the way of the dinosaurs. Pool owners have begun to see the pool and the area around it as an outdoor living space, a place for entertaining a crowd or relaxing alone. In response to this hot, new trend, gardener and landscape ...
This newly revised edition of the original best seller has hundreds of helpful tips that you can use every day! Practical information, presented in a step by step format, includes critical, up to date advice on maintaining consistent bunkers, sand topdressing and aerifying, using pesticides and fertilizers safely and effectively, irrigation ...
In this text, Lillian Too turns her attention to the garden or plot of land immediately around the home. She gives guidelines on how best to plan and landscape a garden using water, trees, various plants and architectural aspects so a beautiful, relaxing and positive environment may be created.
Stonework can be a very complex and daunting project to undertake, but this new title guides readers through the process with ease. Within its covers, the art of using stone in the garden for paths, patios, walls, water gardens and rock gardens is explained in easy-to-understand language. A design gallery features full-color photos of creative ...
"How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls and Much More"...was written with the consumer in mind: It's a show and tell presentation of everything needed to build spectacular water gardens. Jeffrey Reid proves that knowing the correct steps and using the right product for the job practically guarantees success. The methods shown in these chapters are ...
'No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times.' -Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape
Known above all for his design of New York City's Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) contributed to the American urban landscape with a number of notable projects. He also wrote journalistic pieces on slavery and other current issues, and felt strongly about maintaining the country's national park system. Witold Rybczynski, author of ...
This volume looks at the landscape of 28 cultures, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, and shows how the environment is conditioned by the philosophy and religion of each civilization. A selection from Geoffrey Jellicoe's "The Atlanta Historical Garden" is included.
Daniel Snow is a waller, an artisan who builds walls, terraces, caverns, and the occasional sphere or pool out of dry stone. It's an ancient skill - building with only what the earth provides. No mortar, no nails, nothing to hold his creations together except gravity, an invisible glue he can sense in the stones' "conversations" of squeaks and ...
Enhance a garden with the soothing sights and sounds of reflecting pools and other imaginative water elements. This volume provides all the information needed to build everything from small-scale fountains to inviting ponds and flowing waterfalls. The book includes step-by-step photographs, a practical guide to tools and materials, and ...
"Site Engineering for Landscape Architects Fifth Edition", the leading guide to site design and engineering is now fully updated. The leading choice for site engineering, planning, and construction courses, as well as for practitioners in the field, "Site Engineering for Landscape Architects, Fifth Edition" introduces the principles and techniques ...
Loaded with sound, expert advice, Tim Matson's second book on ponds explains how to build a pond for very little money, then how to get the fullest enjoyment possible from your "cloud in the earth". Among the helpful topics covered are plants to attract wildlife, pumps, liners for goldfish, algae and crawfish, and much more. Matson's first book on ...
Filled with fun projects for kids and their parents to build in their backyards. It begins with a section on basic carpentry and continues with easy to follow, step by step instructions on building treehouses, forts, and huts. It concludes with a section on 'cool stuff for kids to make' such as treasure chests, catapults, cannons and more.
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