| Description |
viii, 315 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans and charts ; 23 x 29 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: what makes a place scenic? -- What is design? -- Cultivating a designer's mind -- Understanding the designer's role -- Listening to the site -- Defining the design program -- Thinking graphically -- Getting to "aha!" -- Finding the form -- Principles of residential landscape design -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: clues from the built landscape -- Appendix 2: tips for living the good life. |
| Summary |
Cultivating the Designer's Mind focuses on how to go about the critical set of tasks of managing your mind when designing a landscape. Easy to read and highly illustrated (including many of Walter's watercolor paintings), the book has something for everyone, including stories, case studies, proven principles of design, tips for the designer, and illustrative examples. The book will be valuable to landscape architecture students as well as established practitioners; there is much as well for the sister professions of architecture, engineering, planning, and more. |
| Subject |
Landscape design -- Planning.
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Landscape architecture -- Planning.
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Landscape architecture -- Planning.
(OCoLC)fst00991838
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| Added Author |
Babize, Mollie, author.
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| Added Title |
Principles and process for coherent landscape design |
| ISBN |
9781792304811 |
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1792304811 |
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