Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect
outstanding. Featuring many of the worlds most highly acclaimed
landscape architects, this book presents 40 of the most recently
completed and influential landscape designs. Each project is
presented with colour photographs, site plans and sections as well
as numerous construction details. There is also a brief descriptive
text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project.
The projects are presented in clear and concise layouts over four
pages. All commissioned especially for this book, the drawings are
styled in a consistent manner and presented at standard
architectural scales for easy comparison. Intended for architects,
engineers and landscape architects, the book will also be
invaluable for architecture, garden and landscape design students,
for whom it will be a resource not only for understanding the work
of the best contemporary landscape architects, but also as a tool
for their own design work.
關於作者:
Virginia McLeod was the editor of The Phaidon Atlas of
Contemporary World Architecture. She is the author of several
books, including Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, the
Encyclopedia of Detail Contemporary Residential Architecture and
Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture.