1001 Ideas for Outdoor Spaces

Author: Brett Martin
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 1589233867
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Whether budget allows for a few added accessories and plants or a full landscaping project complete with a deck or patio, this book will offer readers the many options they have to get the perfect outdoor space. With hundreds of photos, this text sets the perfect foundation for the dream outdoor space.

Patios, Driveways, and Plazas

Author: David Randolph Smith
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764315619
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Learn the design vocabulary of basic paving patterns and progress to more intricate variations. Each of the 300-plus color photos demonstrates how specific patterns, colors, and textures enhance outdoor environments -- from the smallest backyard patio to the grand urban plaza. Written for landscape architects, architects, contractors, and homeowners alike.

Outdoor Design Paving

Author: Clare Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Gardenista

Author: Michelle Slatalla
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579656528
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
Named a Best Gift Book for Gardeners by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Domino magazine, and Goop. The team behind the inspirational design sites Gardenista.com and Remodelista.com presents an all-in-one manual for making your outdoor space as welcoming as your living room. Tour personality-filled gardens around the world and re-create the looks with no-fail planting palettes. Find hundreds of design tips and easy DIYs, editors’ picks of 100 classic (and stylish) objects, a landscaping primer with tips from pros, over 200 resources, and so much more.

Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design

Author: Paul Hensey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317401743
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer’s intent is clear and to enable the highest quality constructions. This book contains the elements most often used when detailing surfaces, with key information on standards, guidance and construction that the practitioner must be aware of. Alongside the text are 2D and 3D images with suggestions of measurements, design considerations and materials. Key topics covered in this book are: Vehicular paving Pedestrian paving and patios Steps and ramps Margins, edges and kerbs Drainage channels To be used in conjunction with the book is an innovative online library of freely downloadable CAD (SketchUp format) details which link directly to those in the book. These details are available for the reader to edit, adapt and use in their own designs - and make the task of detailing for projects that little bit easier.

Materials and Their Applications in Landscape Design

Author: Rob W. Sovinski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047011293X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
This single-source reference offers an encyclopedic and systematic approach to the broad palette of materials commonly used in landscape construction. Connecting the technical aspects of landscape architecture with design aspects, the book's encyclopedic approach takes the reader systematically through the broad palette of available materials, including wood, brick, asphalt, stone, concrete, stone and aggregates, and more. It also introduces readers to the systems in which these materials are used, including walls, decks, pavement, and steps and ramps. Addressing sustainable issues related to each covered material, the book features hundreds of images, from construction details and design drawings to photographs of materials in the built landscape, along with examples from leading design firms. Exercises, chapter summaries and definitions, online exercises, and other pedagogical tools make this an ideal textbook or self-study guidebook for anyone dealing with landscape materials.

Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition

Author: Kim Sorvig
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 161091810X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 505

Book Description
Basic principles : "Sustainability" in context -- Principle 1 : Keep healthy sites healthy -- Principle 2 : Heal injured soils and sites -- Principle 3 : Favor living, flexible materials -- Principle 4 : Respect the waters of life -- Principle 5 : Pave less -- Principle 6 : Consider origin and fate of materials -- Principle 7 : Know the costs of energy over time -- Principle 8 : Celebrate light, respect darkness -- Principle 9 : Quietly defend silence -- Principle 10 : Maintain to sustain -- Principle 11 : Demonstrate performance, learn from failure -- Sustaining principles, evolving efforts.

Residential Landscaping I

Author: Theodore D. Walker
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description

Landscape Paving

Author:
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 9789881652928
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
This book includes the latest excellent pavement design in landscape projects all over the world. They are playful or serious; colorful and full of details or minimalistic and modern; the main feature of the project or an anonymous carpet and background that enhances other elements of the project. The selection in this book not only show the graphic side of the many projects but has an important focus on the technical aspects of good pavings as well.

Timeless Landscape Design

Author: Hugh Graham Dargan
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423614038
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
In Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, renowned landscape architects Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the "Four-Part Master Plan" -- a unique method they've perfected over the past two-and-a-half decades of creating award-winning gardens and yards for clients.