Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to
provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while
supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the
potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement
and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well
understood. This book meshes the art of planting design with an
understanding of how humans respond to natural environments.
Beginning with an understanding of human needs, preferences and
responses to landscape, the author interprets the ways in which an
understanding of the human-environment interaction can inform
planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be
used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour
with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from
the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia, including:
Andrea Cochran, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San
Francisco, CA Design Workshop Inc. Richard Hartlage, Land
Morphology, Seattle, WA Shunmyo Masuno, Japan Landscape Consultants
Ltd., Yokohama Piet Oudolf, Hummelo, The Netherlands Melody
Redekop, Vancouver Christine Ten Eyck, Ten Eyck Landscape
Architects Inc., Austin, TX Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Ltd., Beijing.
The book stimulates thought, provides new direction and assists the
reader to find their own unique design voice. Because there are
many valid processes and intentions for landscape design, the book
is not intended to be overly prescriptive. Rather than presenting a
strict design method and accompanying set of rules, Planting Design
provides information, insight and inspiration as a basis for
developing the individual designer's own expression in this most
challenging of art forms.
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