Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonized? These are just some of the questions tackled in this refreshing approach to the subject. In "Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape" the author explains a range of design principles.
The book is profusely illustrated using both abstract and real examples taken from a wide range of international locations, together with cross references between related principles and case studies, demonstrating how principles can be applied to visually creative design and management.
A unique feature of this book is the author's presentation of a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence, which makes the book highly accessible even to non-designers who increasingly need to know about visual design in their work. There is also a glossary for the terms that may be unfamiliar to those coming into design for the first time. Given the broad range of the book it will be an important guide for students on landscape, architecture, planning and design courses, and professionals will also find it an ideal source of ideas and applications.
This new edition includes revised and updated text that will link to other areas of research and disciplines such as aesthetic philosophy and psychology. A third of the photographs have been replaced with new photographs showing better and more recent examples and also reflecting landscape in a wider range of countries.

Public concern about the landscape, in particular its appearance, is increasing all the time. For those charged with managing, developing or conserving a wide range of landscapes it is a major task to take visual aspects into account.

Elements of Visual Design in the Landsacpe presents a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence. It is profusely illustrated using both abstract and real examples taken from a wide range of international locations together with cross referencing between related principles and case studies demonstrating how the principles can be applied in practice.

The visual aspects of design have often been treated as 'cosmetic' and therefore not meriting attention or purely subjective and therefore open to personal preference. Few attempts have been made to explain how we see the landscape in any rational and structured way, and to demonstrate how visually creative design and management can be undertaken. This book aims to fill that gap.

 

Acknowledgements. Preface. Foreword. Introduction. Part 1. Basic Elements 1. Point 2. Line 3. Plane 4. Solid Volume 5. Open Volume 6. Combination of Elements. Part 2. Variables 7. Number 8. Position 9. Direction 10. Orientation 11. Size 12. Shape (form) 13. Interval 14. Texture 15.Density 16. Colour 17. Time 18. Light 19. Visual Force 20. Visual Inertia. Part 3. Organization 21. Objectives of Design 22. Spatial Cues 23. Structural Elements 24. Ordering Part 4. Case Studies 25. The Canadian Museum of Civilization 26. Powerscourt 27. Strathyre Forest. Glossary. References and further reading. Index.