Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence (What's New in Trades & Technology)

This is a good book to help beginners build a solid foundation for the design process. Pros can use it to brush up. Most books only give lip service to the design process, this book goes into more detail. Without a good design process, you have nothing. A "designer" without a good design process may get a design right occasionally (think broken clock right twice a day), but a designer with a good design process will get a design right consistently.

very informative. def purchase. get the color version

Excellent book for design teachers.

Great resource! Used for Landscape Design 1 class for Horticulture program.

Used this book in college & sold it back. I have regretted it since then & am glad to own it again.

Exactly what I was looking for.

I was a little bummed when I received my book…the edges were bent and the pages are super super thin so I won’t be able to highlight important things as I normally like to so. For a book that is over $200, I thought I’d be getting something of much higher quality. It seems very dense and thorough but the pages are thinner than tissue paper and I’m afraid I’m going to rip them if I merely flip through! Idk. I’m debating returning it. I don’t understand the other reviews…what makes this book so special and so expensive?! I wanted the best landscape design book I could get and this was what I found but it’s not quite hitting the mark, in my opinion…

The book seems informative and thorough about the specifics of the design process and what to consider. I appreciate the chapter about Sustainable Design. However, the very next chapter about the design process uses a sample design including Japanese Barberry and Vinca Minor, both of which are highly invasive in most of the contiguous United States. Later is a design with Russian Olive and Norway Maple for a design in Ohio. These are both destructive and highly invasive. Landscapers and home gardeners need to be conscious of plant choices in their region, and this book doesn’t practically model that.

Excellent condition.

The was in excellent condition. The book was thoroughly written and easily applicable to the job. From how to approach your clients about the the initial design process and incorporating their ideas to your design to following through on the landscape design. Its definitely a good start for a beginner.

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