Focus Week 3 - Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design

Authors: Bradley Cantrell, Wes Michaels




This is an excellent introductory book with more advanced techniques as well. Very clear at demonstating how the integrated use of several industry standard software packages can produce very good results which wide variety of forms of digital visual representation for Landscape Architects and designers. The last few chapters give quite a good overview of creating perspective visualisations through various methods, a very useful tool for promoting/selling a scheme. It is quite expensive but then that is to be expected in such a specialised subject area. It also shows the inter-connectivity between these software packages (for example methods of rendering PDF line work exported from AutoCad into Photoshop) to make the most of their respective advantages. This book would have been a great addition to me in my first year of university.

Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

Authors: Siobhan Vernon, Nicola Garmory, Rachel Tennant




I can't believe how much information is stored in such a small book, it even fits in your pocket. It focuses on garden designers: a reference book that gives all dimensions for loading, path widths, height restrictions. It contains a lot of information for Pathway to Chartership including planning and legislation, landscape architecture work stages, sustainability of materials. A book that contains a lot of depth but fits in your pocket!

Focus Week 2 - Landscape Graphics

Author: Grant W. Reid



This book will inspire me to improve my plans, of what I have heard it is a cheap and superb book. It main focus is on landscape designing, it's supposed to take you through the stages of the design process, and also to give details of quality graphics.

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Focus Week 1 - Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Virginia McLeod



This is an excellent book for all students and professionals within the Landscape Industry. The lack of training in these important skills means that you have to improve by using additional resources such as this book. This book uses a great combination of details, images and texts of many contemporary projects. It also includes CAD files of the details on CD placed in the back of the book. This is an invaluable source of inspiration and technical reference. I highy recommend this book to all of similar interests.

Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components: Materials, Techniques , Building elements

Author: Astrid Zimmermann



This book focuses on the construction side of designing, it relates to all materials and techniques used for constructed. This book guide me into the final steps of finalising a concept.