Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence (What's New in Trades & Technology) 7th Edition

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

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

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

Exactly what I was looking for.

Excellent book for design teachers.

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.

This book arrived with book pages rippled as if the. I’m was exposed to an overly moist or humid environment and became damp and then dried. Not the best and, not what I expected.