The Landscape Lighting Book - Hardcover

Moyer, Janet Lennox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118073827 ISBN 13: 9781118073827

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

This richly illustrated, up-to-date guide offers practical coverage of all aspects of lighting design. Written by an award-winning, internationally known lighting designer, it covers lighting practices, materials, and their design applications and offers guidelines for preparing lighting drawings, control and transfer charts, symbol lists, and other technical specifications. This edition provides a new focus on the use of LEDs, as well as new and expanded coverage of renderings, Mesopic Vision, and the latest controls approaches and systems.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements--plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings.

From the Back Cover:

Richly illustrated and fully updated practical guidance on every aspect of landscape lighting

LED technology offers a new light source in landscape design. In the process, it causes huge changes to the configuration of lighting fixtures. The Third Edition of The Landscape Lighting Book includes information to help guide readers on the use of LED technology. With extensive new art and photographs and changes throughout the book, this edition offers expert guidance and advice on the theory, design process, project needs, and techniques for all types of elements in landscape lighting.

This new edition stresses the importance of communication with all members of a project team, planning for guidance as changes occur, and making sure that maintenance is done regularly to keep a lighting system functioning. It covers ideas and techniques required to create a wide range of landscape lighting effects, from soft through dramatic.

Lighting, a relatively new part of landscape design, continues to evolve, and this important new edition:

• Provides a guideline for understanding LED technology now, and what to look for in the future
• Includes in-depth information on planning, documenting, commissioning, and maintaining projects
• Offers a wealth of new photographs and illustrations demonstrating examples and varying approaches to the multitude of issues in landscape spaces
• Features updated information on mesopic vision and control strategies, with a new approach to renderings that gives designers and clients a real view of how their landscape can look at night
• Covers changes in materials and finishes, and takes a fresh look at lamps and fixtures available to make gardens live at night

The Landscape Lighting Book, Third Edition is an indispensable resource for lighting designers, landscape architects, architects, interior designers, developers, illuminating engineers, and urban planners, as well as for contractors, design-build professionals, and students in these fields.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118073827
• ISBN 13: 9781118073827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384