Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence (3rd Edition)

Written by registered landscape artists, this book provides readers with the quality fundamentals of residential site design—exploring functional and artistic elements, and focusing on appreciation of quality and updated standards for site development, maintenance techniques, and training. It clearly illustrates and discusses the actual procedures and underlying principles utilized by experienced residential site designers. Chapter topics cover the typical residential site, outdoor rooms, environmentally responsive design, design process, meeting the clients, site measuring and base map preparation, site study and design program, functional diagrams, preliminary design and design principles, form composition, spatial composition, material composition and master plan, and special project sites. For those individuals beginning design careers, as well as for those currently practicing residential design who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge.

Residential Landscape Architecture explores the functional and artistic elements of residential site design, with a focus on appreciation of quality and updated standards for site development, maintenance techniques, and training. It clearly illustrates and discusses the actual procedures and underlying principles utilized by experienced residential site designers.

• New chapter 13 – Special Project Sites – contains 4 new case studies/projects that illustrate the design process.
• Old chapter 12 has been made new chapter 3 to address environmentally responsive design issues earlier in the design process.
• Old chapter 13 on Architecturally Responsive Design has been dissected and addressed throughout the text to better meet the needs of users.