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Sustainable Landscape Architecture
Resources for PLSC350, PLSC311, and LAR535 Students
This resource introduces the foundational concepts, typologies, and rudimentary principles of form and space into the context of landscape architectural design. It also discusses organizational and spatial design structures based on orthogonal, angular, and circular forms.
This book provides drawing details, construction photographs, and analyses of a multitude of international projects and material technologies with assessments based on properties, processes, and performance in landscape architecture. The authors draw connections between technology and theory and call for enhanced collaboration between designers, engineers, scientists, and ecologists.
This resource provides instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, and section elevations. It also includes an extensive appendix of conversions, equivalents, and graphic symbols.
This book presents photographs, site plans, sections, and construction details for 40 of the most recently completed and influential landscape designs.
The method in this resource emphasizes speed, confidence, and relaxation, while incorporating many time-saving tricks of the trade in drawing and design.
This resource provides instructional and reference materials to create a wide range of architectural forms in the style of loose sketches, line drawings, detailed renderings, and final presentations.
This resource introduces characteristics, significance, potential uses, and design guidelines for a variety of media used in landscape architectural design including landforms, plant materials, buildings, pavement, structures, and water.